CVE-2020-5496 is a high-severity heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Type2NotDefSplines() function of FontForge 20190801, affecting various FontForge distributions including those for openSUSE. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity, typically requiring user interaction. Despite its high CVSS score of 8.8, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
20190801CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fontforge:fontforge:20190801:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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