CVE-2020-4060

Use After Free in in cups_update_info in LoRa Basics Station

MEDIUM
5
CVSS Score
Published: June 22, 2020 at 03:45 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:19 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsLora Basics StationLoRa Basics Station

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Severity
MEDIUM5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%

Description

In LoRa Basics Station before 2.0.4, there is a Use After Free vulnerability that leads to memory corruption. This bug is triggered on 32-bit machines when the CUPS server responds with a message (https://doc.sm.tc/station/cupsproto.html#http-post-response) where the signature length is larger than 2 GByte (never happens in practice), or the response is crafted specifically to trigger this issue (i.e. the length signature field indicates a value larger than (2**31)-1 although the signature actually does not contain that much data). In such a scenario, on 32 bit machines, Basic Station would execute a code path, where a piece of memory is accessed after it has been freed, causing the process to crash and restarted again. The CUPS transaction is typically mutually authenticated over TLS. Therefore, in order to trigger this vulnerability, the attacker would have to gain access to the CUPS server first. If the user chose to operate without authentication over TLS but yet is concerned about this vulnerability, one possible workaround is to enable TLS authentication. This has been fixed in 2.0.4.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2.0.4
Affected range stops below 2.0.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 2.0.4
Affected range stops below 2.0.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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References (1)

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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