CVE-2020-1895 describes a critical heap overflow vulnerability in Instagram for Android, affecting versions prior to 128.0.0.26.128. This flaw allows an attacker to crash the application, and potentially achieve remote code execution, by sending a specially crafted image with malicious dimensions to a victim. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction (receiving the image), but could lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there are no public exploit modules like Metasploit or Nuclei, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, including reports of potential remote account takeover scenarios. Despite this attention, it is not currently listed on CISA's KEV catalog as being actively exploited.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 128.0.0.26.128CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:facebook:instagram:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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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.