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CVE-2020-29652
A nil pointer dereference in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh component through v0.0.0-20201203163018-be400aefbc4c for Go allows remote…
High7.5EPSS 3.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
A nil pointer dereference in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh component through v0.0.0-20201203163018-be400aefbc4c for Go allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service against SSH servers.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 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 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% 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 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogolang.org/x/cryptoGHSA-3vm4-22fp-5rfm (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/ouZIlBimOsE?pli=1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/crypto/+/278852 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [skywalking-notifications] 20211018 [GitHub] [skywalking-swck] hanahmily opened a new pull request #37: Fix vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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 Advisory GHSA-3vm4-22fp-5rfm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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