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CVE-2020-10870 — Zim through 0

Zim through 0.72.1 creates temporary directories with predictable names. A malicious user could predict and create Zim's temporary directories and prevent other users from being able to start Zim, resulting in a denial of service.

CVSS
5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.13% (top 67.60%)
CWE
—
Published
2020-03-23T19:07:07.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-04T11:14:15.681Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:L/A:H/C:N/I:N/PR:L/S:U/UI:N

01What is this vulnerability?

Zim through 0.72.1 creates temporary directories with predictable names. A malicious user could predict and create Zim's temporary directories and prevent other users from being able to start Zim, resulting in a denial of service.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / n/an/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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