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CVE-2020-25887

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in mg_resolve_from_hosts_file in Mongoose 6.18, when reading from a crafted hosts file.

Affected products

• Cesanta Mongoose: 6.18

References

• https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/issues/1140
• https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/issues/1140

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