Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2020-26164

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-26164 describes a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in KDE Connect (kdeconnect-kde) versions prior to 20.08.2, affecting various KDE and openSUSE distributions. An attacker on the local network can exploit this by sending specially crafted packets, leading to excessive CPU, memory, or network connection usage. Rated as MEDIUM severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability has a local attack vector and low attack complexity, with the primary impact being system availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 20.08.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kdeconnect:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
42.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0055 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00016.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00018.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/024e5f23db8d8ad3449714b906b46094baaffb89
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/4fbd01a3d44a0bcca888c49a77ec7cfd10e113d7
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/542d94a70c56aa386c8d4d793481ce181b0422e8
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/613899be24b6e2a6b3e5cc719efce8ae8a122991
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/8112729eb0f13e6947984416118531078e65580d
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/ce0f00fc2d3eccb51d0af4eba61a4f60de086a59
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / KDE/kdeconnect-kde/releases
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
kdeconnect.kde.org / official
Product
kde.org / info/security/advisory-20201002-1.txt
Third Party AdvisoryVendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00014.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202101-16
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/10/13/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/10/13/5
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/10/14/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/11/30/1
Mailing List