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CVE-2020-12823

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-12823 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in OpenConnect 8.09, affecting various Linux distributions including Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service or potentially other severe impacts by sending crafted certificate data. Despite its high severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.09CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:infradead:openconnect:8.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0462 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00039.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00056.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugs.gentoo.org / 721570
ExploitThird Party Advisory
gitlab.com / openconnect/openconnect/-/merge_requests/108
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00015.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/25MFX4AZE7RDCUWOL4ZOE73YBOPUMQDX
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AYSXLXAPXD2T73T6JMHI5G2WP7KHAGMN
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BEVTIH5UFX35CC7MVSYBGRM3D66ACFD5
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202006-15
Third Party Advisory