{"id":"CVE-2020-10931","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-10931","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:36:08.990Z","title":"Memcached 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted binary protocol header to try_read_command_binary in memcached.c.","description":"Memcached 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted binary protocol header to try_read_command_binary in memcached.c.","published":"2020-03-24T15:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:48:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-120"],"affected":["memcached/memcached"],"epss":{"score":0.28144,"percentile":0.98101,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 28.1%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/02c6a2b62ddcb6fa4569a591d3461a156a636305","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/629","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes162","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/02c6a2b62ddcb6fa4569a591d3461a156a636305","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/629","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes162","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10931","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}