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CVE-2020-6019

Published: Nov 13, 2020Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-248
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
2.8%
Top 15.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Valve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles inlined statistics messages in function CConnectionTransportUDPBase::Received_Data(), leading to an exception thrown from libprotobuf and resulting in a crash.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-248NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

Game Networking Socketsn/a
game networking socketsvalvesoftware
Mixed
Consumer Software / gaming
valvesoftwarecommercialUSConsumer Softwareaka steam, dota 2, game networking sockets

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/commit/d944a10808891d202bb1d5e1998de6e0423af678
github.com
https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/game-on-finding-vulnerabilities-in-valves-steam-sockets/
research.checkpoint.com

Timeline

Published
Nov 13, 2020
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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