CVE-2020-11105 is a critical vulnerability affecting USC iLab cereal versions up to 1.3.0, stemming from an insecure caching mechanism for std::shared_ptr values. This flaw allows for serialization fidelity to become dependent on memory layout, potentially leading to incorrect deserialization of shared pointers. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, allowing for high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usc:cereal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.