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CVE-2020-10070

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

In the Zephyr Project MQTT code, improper bounds checking can result in memory corruption and possibly remote code execution. NCC-ZEP-031 This issue affects: zephyrproject-rtos zephyr version 2.2.0 and later versions.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Zephyrproject — Zephyr

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