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CVE-2020-8444

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 2.49% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-01-30 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

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Public Exploit Signal

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

GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗ github.com ↗

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CVE
CVE-2020-8444
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
2.49%

Original NVD Description

In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to a use-after-free during processing of ossec-alert formatted msgs (received from authenticated remote agents and delivered to the analysisd processing queue by ossec-remoted).