CVE-2020-29363: An issue was discovered in p11-kit 0.23.6 through 0.23.21. A heap-based buffer overflow has been discovered in the RPC protocol used by p11-kit server/remote commands and the client library. When the remote entity supplies a serialized byte array in a CK_ATTRIBUTE the receiving entity may not allocate sufficient length for the buffer to store the deserialized value.
Overview
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.5)
- CVSS Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Exploit Status
- Not Exploited
- Patch Tuesday
- 2020-Dec
- Released
- 2020-12-24
- EPSS Score
- 0.57% (percentile: 68.8%)
FAQ
Is Azure Linux the only Microsoft product that includes this open-source library and is therefore potentially affected by this vulnerability?
One of the main benefits to our customers who choose to use the Azure Linux distro is the commitment to keep it up to date with the most recent and most secure versions of the open source libraries with which the distro is composed. Microsoft is committed to transparency in this work which is why we began publishing CSAF/VEX in October 2025. See this blog post for more information. If impact to additional products is identified, we will update the CVE to reflect this.
Affected Products (1)
Mariner
- cm1 p11-kit 0.23.22-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0
Revision History
- 2020-12-24: Information published.