CVE-2020-5235

MEDIUM

Nanopb < 0.2.9.4 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

There is a potentially exploitable out of memory condition In Nanopb before 0.4.1, 0.3.9.5, and 0.2.9.4. When nanopb is compiled with PB_ENABLE_MALLOC, the message to be decoded contains a repeated string, bytes or message field and realloc() runs out of memory when expanding the array nanopb can end up calling `free()` on a pointer value that comes from uninitialized memory. Depending on platform this can result in a crash or further memory corruption, which may be exploitable in some cases. This problem is fixed in nanopb-0.4.1, nanopb-0.3.9.5, nanopb-0.2.9.4.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0056
EPSS Percentile 68.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (1)
nanopb_project/nanopb < 0.2.9.4
Published Feb 04, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026