CVE-2020-28926
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: November 30, 2020 at 05:09 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:10 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxReadymedia
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 13%
Description
ReadyMedia (aka MiniDLNA) before versions 1.3.0 allows remote code execution. Sending a malicious UPnP HTTP request to the miniDLNA service using HTTP chunked encoding can lead to a signedness bug resulting in a buffer overflow in calls to memcpy/memmove.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%v < 1.3.0
Affected range stops below 1.3.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (4)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00017.htmlx_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4806x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.rootshellsecurity.net/remote-heap-corruption-bug-discovery-minidlna/CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-120
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