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CVE-2020-27523

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-11-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Solstice-Pod up to 5.0.2 WEBRTC server mishandles the format-string specifiers %x; %p; %c and %s in the screen_key, display_name, browser_name, and operation_system parameter during the authentication process. This may crash the server and force Solstice-Pod to reboot, which leads to a denial of service.

Affected products

• mersive Solstice Pod API: through 5.0.2

References

• https://documentation.mersive.com/content/topics/general-gen2i-pod-specs.htm
• https://tiger-team-1337.blogspot.com/2020/10/solstice-pod-critical-unauthenticated.html
• https://twitter.com/Kevin2600/status/1316261149403275264
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGW_M1MqAG0
• https://documentation.mersive.com/content/topics/general-gen2i-pod-specs.htm
• https://tiger-team-1337.blogspot.com/2020/10/solstice-pod-critical-unauthenticated.html
• https://twitter.com/Kevin2600/status/1316261149403275264
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGW_M1MqAG0

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