7.5

CVE-2020-9429: opensuse leap NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2020-9429
Published 27-02-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-9429 is a high (CVSS 7.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in opensuse leap. EPSS estimates a 1.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.54%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0362-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11513-1SUSE-SU-2020:0693-1

Timeline

  1. 27-02-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, the WireGuard dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wireguard.c by handling the situation where a certain data structure intentionally has a NULL value.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.54%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

75%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.54% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.54%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • wireshark< 3.2.2-1
Opensuse1 product
Wireshark1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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