BaselineWatch
Desk

CVE-2020-37280

8.7 high SSVC exploitation: none Deferred

cbor-sync through 1.0.4 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability in CBOR.decode that trusts declared array and map lengths without checking remaining input. Remote attackers can supply a tiny crafted CBOR payload declaring huge lengths to drive billions of iterations, exhausting CPU and process memory.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 2

  1. StatusReceived → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-16 19:18
  2. First seenCVSS 8.7NVD modified 2026-10-13 17:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 4