CVE-2020-8252: NodeJS Node

Buffer overflow in Node

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0071 · 53rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: hackerone) at 18 Sept 2020, 20:11 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
NodeJS	Node	affected 4.0 to before 4.* semver affected 5.0 to before 5.* semver affected 6.0 to before 6.* semver affected 7.0 to before 7.* semver affected 8.0 to before 8.* semver affected 9.0 to before 9.* semver affected 10.0 to before 10.22.1 semver affected 11.0 to before 11.* semver affected 12.0 to before 12.18.4 semver affected 13.0 to before 13.* semver affected 14.0 to before 14.9.0 semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2020-8252

CNA

hackerone

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-120

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0071, the 53rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 18 Sept 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2020-security-releases/
hackerone.com/reports/965914
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-15 vendor-advisorygentoo
usn.ubuntu.com/4548-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00011.html vendor-advisorysuse
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201009-0004/ confirm
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00023.html vendor-advisorysuse
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4OOYAMJVLLCLXDTHW3V5UXNULZBBK4O6/ vendor-advisoryfedora

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.