CVE-2020-28601
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 2.9% (pctl 87)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
A code execution vulnerability exists in the Nef polygon-parsing functionality of CGAL libcgal CGAL-5.1.1. An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_2/PM_io_parser.h PM_io_parser::read_vertex() Face_of[] OOB read. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.
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 | 2.9% — more likely to be exploited than 87% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-129 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2021-03-04 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| cgal | computational geometry algorithms library |
| debian | debian linux |
| fedoraproject | fedora |
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00002.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00011.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E4J344OKKDLPRN422OYRR46HDEN6MM6P/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NB5SF5OJR2DSV7CC6U7FVW5VJSJO5EKV/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-34
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1225
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00002.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00011.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E4J344OKKDLPRN422OYRR46HDEN6MM6P/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NB5SF5OJR2DSV7CC6U7FVW5VJSJO5EKV/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-34
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1225
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