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HIGHpublic exploit

CVE-2020-27347

CVE-2020-27347 — tmux stack buffer overflow in function input_csi_dispatch_sgr_colon

In tmux before version 3.1c the function input_csi_dispatch_sgr_colon() in file input.c contained a stack-based buffer-overflow that can be exploited by terminal output.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, canonical

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Exploit code

public exploit, none observed

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

tmux

tmux

CVSS base

8.8

HIGH

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (2)

Products (1)

tmux

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
8.8CVSS 3.1HIGHcvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-121

Public exploit

Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.

Indexed by

poc in github

References

4 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • tmuxevery CVE for this vendor
  • ubuntuevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-121other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.