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CVE-2020-29243

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-29243 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the dhowden tag project, specifically versions prior to 2020-11-19. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger a "panic: runtime error: index out of range" via a crafted readAPICFrame, leading to application unavailability. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but can be exploited remotely (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L). 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
< 2020-11-19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tag_project:tag:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0111 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/dhowden/tagFixed in: 0.0.0-20201120070457-d52dcb253c63

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-9wm7-rc47-g56mmedium

dhowden tag panic due to out-of-bounds read

May 24, 2022

References

github.com / dhowden/tag/issues/80
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory