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Vulnerability details: VCID-6t31-vq8v-ebcr
Vulnerability ID VCID-6t31-vq8v-ebcr
Aliases CVE-2020-6071
Summary An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the compression pointer is followed without checking for recursion, leading to a denial of service. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
System Score Found at
epss 0.00613 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-6071
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epss 0.00613 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-6071
epss 0.00613 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-6071
epss 0.00613 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-6071
epss 0.00613 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-6071
epss 0.00613 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-6071
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epss 0.00613 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-6071
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6071
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6071
archlinux Critical https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1136
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-6071
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-19721
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6071
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6072
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6073
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6077
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6078
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6079
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6080
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671
ASA-202004-24 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202004-24
AVG-1136 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1136
cpe:2.3:a:videolabs:libmicrodns:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:videolabs:libmicrodns:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2020-6071 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6071
USN-7239-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7239-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6071
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6071
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.68893
EPSS Score 0.00613
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:48:18.630332+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.14/community.json 37.0.0