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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2020-14396 json

An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13.

published 2020-06-17 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-6535

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. libvncclient/tls_openssl.c has a NULL pointer dereference.

Patch / fix

  • siemens simatic_itc1500_firmware 3.2.1.0
  • siemens simatic_itc1500_pro_firmware 3.2.1.0
  • siemens simatic_itc1900_firmware 3.2.1.0
  • siemens simatic_itc1900_pro_firmware 3.2.1.0
  • siemens simatic_itc2200_firmware 3.2.1.0
  • siemens simatic_itc2200_pro_firmware 3.2.1.0
  • libvncserver Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.9.13+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14396

  • libvncserver Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 0.9.12+dfsg-9ubuntu0.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14396

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

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-14396 updated cvss 7.5

libvncserver: libvncclient/tls_openssl.c has a NULL pointer dereference

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 vino, libvncserver Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 vino, libvncserver Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 vino, libvncserver
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-21-350-12 updated cvss 7.5

Siemens SIMATIC ITC

  • Siemens SIMATIC ITC1500 V3 <V3.2.1.0 Siemens SIMATIC ITC1500 V3 PRO <V3.2.1.0 Siemens SIMATIC ITC1900 V3 <V3.2.1.0 Siemens SIMATIC ITC1900 V3 PRO <V3.2.1.0 Siemens SIMATIC ITC2200 V3 <V3.2.1.0 Siemens SIMATIC ITC2200 V3 PRO <V3.2.1.0
    affected: fixed in V3.2.1.0, mitigation support.industry.siemens.com

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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