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medium 5.5

CVE-2020-15570 json

The parse_report() function in whoopsie.c in Whoopsie through 0.2.69 mishandles memory allocation failures, which allows an attacker to cau…

published 2020-07-06 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-7557

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The parse_report() function in whoopsie.c in Whoopsie through 0.2.69 mishandles memory allocation failures, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a malformed crash file.

Patch / fix

  • whoopsie Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5
  • whoopsie Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.2.62ubuntu0.5
  • whoopsie Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 0.2.69ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15570

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Exploit prediction

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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