CVE-2020-16099 Denial of service in Command Centre

What is CVE-2020-16099?

CVE-2020-16099 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gallagher Command Centre, published on 15 Sep 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Gallagher Command Centre v8.20 prior to v8.20.1093(MR2) it is possible to create Guard Tour events that when accessed via things like reporting cause clients to temporarily hang or disconnect.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-16099?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Gallagher Command Centre.

How do I fix CVE-2020-16099?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-16099 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-16099 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-16099 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Gallagher Command Centre

• CVE-2021-23140 Missing authorization in Command Centre Critical 9.9
• CVE-2021-23230 SQL injection in Command Centre Critical 9.9
• CVE-2020-16096 Missing authorization in Command Centre Critical 9.9
• CVE-2020-16098 Information disclosure in Command Centre Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-15294 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m95j-3vpr-rhr4.