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CVE-2020-7458

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 1.92% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-07-09 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
arbitrary code execution code execution

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CVE
CVE-2020-7458
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
1.92%

Original NVD Description

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r362281, 11.4-STABLE before r362281, and 11.4-RELEASE before p1, long values in the user-controlled PATH environment variable cause posix_spawnp to write beyond the end of the heap allocated stack possibly leading to arbitrary code execution.