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CVE-2020-12865
A heap buffer overflow in SANE Backends before 1.0.30 may allow a malicious device connected to the same local network as the victim to…
High8.0EPSS 1.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
A heap buffer overflow in SANE Backends before 1.0.30 may allow a malicious device connected to the same local network as the victim to execute arbitrary code, aka GHSL-2020-084.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-announce/2020/000041.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-075-libsane (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200817 [SECURITY] [DLA 2332-1] sane-backends security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-4470-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201007 [SECURITY] [DLA 2332-2] sane-backends regression update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1791 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1798 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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