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CVE-2020-5243

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-5243 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in uap-core versions prior to 0.7.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to overload a server by sending maliciously crafted, long User-Agent strings, exploiting regular expression denial of service (REDoS) due to overlapping capture groups. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, leading to a high impact on availability. Currently, 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
< 0.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uap-core_project:uap-core:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.7MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0226 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: uap-coreFixed in: 0.7.3
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: user_agent_parserFixed in: 2.6.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-cmcx-xhr8-3w9pmedium

Denial of Service in uap-core when processing crafted User-Agent strings

Feb 20, 2020

References

github.com / ua-parser/uap-core/commit/0afd61ed85396a3b5316f18bfd1edfaadf8e88e1
Patch
github.com / ua-parser/uap-core/security/advisories/GHSA-cmcx-xhr8-3w9p
ExploitThird Party Advisory