CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-6019
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-11-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-248
Description
Valve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles inlined statistics messages in function CConnectionTransportUDPBase::Received_Data(), leading to an exception thrown from libprotobuf and resulting in a crash.
Affected configurations
• valvesoftware game networking sockets (< 1.2.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-248 Uncaught Exception weakness
References
- https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/commit/d944a10808891d202bb1d5e1998de6e0423af678 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/game-on-finding-vulnerabilities-in-valves-steam-sockets/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/commit/d944a10808891d202bb1d5e1998de6e0423af678 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/game-on-finding-vulnerabilities-in-valves-steam-sockets/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory