CVE-2020-17441 is a critical vulnerability in picoTCP 1.7.0, affecting products like Altran and Microchip MPLAB Harmony. It stems from improper validation of IPv6 payload length, leading to an out-of-bounds read during ICMPv6 checksum calculation. This can result in Denial-of-Service or Information Disclosure. With a CVSS score of 9.1, it is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:altran:picotcp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.0.0, < 3.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microchip:mplab_harmony:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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.
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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.