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CVE-2020-12866

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-12866 describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in SANE Backends prior to version 1.0.30, affecting various Canonical, openSUSE, and SANE-Project distributions. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.7) allows an attacker on the same local network to trigger a denial of service without user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sane-project:sane_backends:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
20.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.7MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
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
1.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0104 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 314 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: sane-backends

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-12866Moderate

sane-backends: null pointer dereference in epsonds_net_read in epsonds-net.c

May 17, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00079.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00003.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
alioth-lists.debian.net / pipermail/sane-announce/2020/000041.html
Mailing ListRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
securitylab.github.com / advisories/GHSL-2020-075-libsane
ExploitThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4470-1
Third Party Advisory