{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 4 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5208 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2020-5208 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 5 Feb 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-5208 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-5208 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 5 Feb 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5208 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5208/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5208/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-5208","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5208/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-5208","record":{"aliases":["AZL-6489","DEBIAN-CVE-2020-5208","DLA-2098-1","DLA-2699-1","GHSA-g659-9qxw-p7cp","MGASA-2020-0097","MGASA-2023-0135","RHSA-2020:0979","RHSA-2020:0981","RHSA-2020:0984","RHSA-2020:1331","RHSA-2020:1486","RHSA-2020:2213","RHSA-2020:2276","RHSA-2020:2284","RHSA-2020:2286","SUSE-SU-2020:0405-1","SUSE-SU-2020:0617-1","SUSE-SU-2020:0630-1","SUSE-SU-2020:14313-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-5208","USN-5997-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:0247-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10864-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IPMI management tool","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Remote attackers can trigger buffer overflows in ipmitool to execute arbitrary code, especially if the tool runs with elevated privileges.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"fedora","vendor":"fedoraproject"},{"product":"ipmitool","vendor":"ipmitool_project"},{"product":"leap","vendor":"opensuse"}],"cvss":{"score":7.7,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-120","name":"Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input"}],"description":"It's been found that multiple functions in ipmitool before 1.8.19 neglect proper checking of the data received from a remote LAN party, which may lead to buffer overflows and potentially to remote code execution on the ipmitool side. 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