CVE-2020-5895

HIGH

NGINX Controller <3.3.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

On NGINX Controller versions 3.1.0-3.3.0, AVRD uses world-readable and world-writable permissions on its socket, which allows processes or users on the local system to write arbitrary data into the socket. A local system attacker can make AVRD segmentation fault (SIGSEGV) by writing malformed messages to the socket.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K95120415
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200522-0001/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 19.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (1)
f5/nginx_controller 3.1.0 - 3.4.0
Published May 07, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026