Critical severity · published Dec 18, 2020
CVE-2020-14224
A vulnerability in the MIME message handling of the HCL Notes v9 client could potentially be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker resulting in a stack buffer overflow
9.8
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability in the MIME message handling of the HCL Notes v9 client could potentially be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker resulting in a stack buffer overflow. This could allow a remote attacker to crash the Notes application or inject code into the system which would execute with the privileges of the currently logged-in user.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NO
Notes · Hcltech
9.0; 9.0.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14224
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14224
Patch
https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0085913
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