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CVE-2020-25110An issue was discovered in the DNS implementation in Ethernut in Nut/OS 5.1. The length byte of a domain name in a DNS query/response is…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 53.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in the DNS implementation in Ethernut in Nut/OS 5.1. The length byte of a domain name in a DNS query/response is not checked, and is used for internal memory operations. This may lead to successful Denial-of-Service, and possibly Remote Code Execution.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 53.7% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References2
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-17801 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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