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CVSSv2

CVE-2020-15166

Published: 11/09/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

A denial of service has been found in libzmq prior to 4.3.3, allowing unauthenticated clients to prevent legitimate clients from exchange any message with a CURVE/ZAP-protected server.

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zeromq libzmq

fedoraproject fedora 32

fedoraproject fedora 33

debian debian linux 9.0

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It was discovered that ZeroMQ, a lightweight messaging kernel library does not properly handle connecting peers before a handshake is completed A remote, unauthenticated client connecting to an application using the libzmq library, running with a socket listening with CURVE encryption/authentication enabled can take advantage of this flaw to cause ...
A denial of service has been found in libzmq before 433, allowing unauthenticated clients to prevent legitimate clients from exchange any message with a CURVE/ZAP-protected server ...