VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-28895

CVSS score7.3 HIGH
EPSS probability1.54%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-02-03
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

In Wind River VxWorks, memory allocator has a possible overflow in calculating the memory block's size to be allocated by calloc(). As a result, the actual memory allocated is smaller than the buffer size specified by the arguments, leading to memory corruption.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references