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CVE-2020-12862

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-12862 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SANE Backends prior to version 1.0.30, affecting various Linux distributions including Canonical, Debian, and OpenSUSE. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) allows a malicious actor on the same local network to read sensitive information, such as ASLR offsets, without user interaction. While the potential impact is limited to information disclosure, there is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sane-project:sane_backends:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
20.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0108 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: sane-backends

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-12862Low

sane-backends: Out-of-bounds read in decode_binary

May 17, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00079.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00003.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
alioth-lists.debian.net / pipermail/sane-announce/2020/000041.html
Mailing ListRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00029.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00010.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securitylab.github.com / advisories/GHSL-2020-075-libsane
ExploitThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4470-1
Third Party Advisory