CVE-2020-25756

Published September 18th, 2020

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CVSS v3

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS v2

7.5

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the mg_get_http_header function in Cesanta Mongoose 6.18 due to a lack of bounds checking. A crafted HTTP header can exploit this bug. NOTE: a committer has stated "this will not happen in practice.

cesanta/mongoose

Embedded web server, with TCP/IP network stack, MQTT and Websocket

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