CVE-2020-11939
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 3.3% (pctl 88)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
In nDPI through 3.2 Stable, the SSH protocol dissector has multiple KEXINIT integer overflows that result in a controlled remote heap overflow in concat_hash_string in ssh.c. Due to the granular nature of the overflow primitive and the ability to control both the contents and layout of the nDPI library's heap memory through remote input, this vulnerability may be abused to achieve full Remote Code Execution against any network inspection stack that is linked against nDPI and uses it to perform network traffic analysis.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.3% — more likely to be exploited than 88% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-190 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2020-04-23 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| ntop | ndpi |
References
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