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CVE-2020-20950

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-20950 describes a Bleichenbacher's oracle attack vulnerability affecting Microchip Libraries for Applications released up to November 26, 2018, potentially impacting products from Apple, IETF, Linux, and Microsoft. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.9) allows a remote attacker to decrypt encrypted RSA ciphertexts through successive queries, leading to sensitive information disclosure with high confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ietf:public_key_cryptography_standards_\#1:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2018-11-26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microchip:microchip_libraries_for_applications:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 12th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archiv.infsec.ethz.ch / education/fs08/secsem/bleichenbacher98.pdf
Technical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
bi-zone.medium.com / silence-will-fall-or-how-it-can-take-2-years-to-get-your-vuln-registered-e6134846f5bb
Technical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
microchip.com / mplab/microchip-libraries-for-applications
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