CVE-2020-10931

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 28.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Memcached 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted binary protocol header to try_read_command_binary in memcached.c.

Affected products

Memcached: from 1.6.0 before 1.6.2 — fixed in 1.6.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Memcached 1.6.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/02c6a2b62ddcb6fa4569a591d3461a156a636305
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/629
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes162
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/02c6a2b62ddcb6fa4569a591d3461a156a636305
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/629
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes162

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