VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-24337

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability2.85%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-12-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in picoTCP and picoTCP-NG through 1.7.0. When an unsupported TCP option with zero length is provided in an incoming TCP packet, it is possible to cause a Denial-of-Service by achieving an infinite loop in the code that parses TCP options, aka tcp_parse_options() in pico_tcp.c.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-835

Primary references