CVE-2020-0069
Actively exploited. CVE-2020-0069 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Public exploit code is available. Proof-of-concept or working exploit code for CVE-2020-0069 is indexed in GitHub PoC. Expect opportunistic scanning and exploitation attempts — prioritize remediation.
Multiple MediaTek chipsets contain an insufficient input validation vulnerability and have missing SELinux restrictions in the Command Queue drivers ioctl handlers. This causes an out-of-bounds write leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability was observed chained with CVE-2019-2215 and CVE-2020-0041 under exploit chain "AbstractEmu."
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple MediaTek chipsets have an insufficient input validation vulnerability leading to privilege escalation.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of affected MediaTek chipsets.
- Urgency
- Remediation is critical as the vulnerability is actively exploited.
- Action
- Apply patches or mitigations provided by MediaTek.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 67% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Exploit availability
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Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2020-0069: Mediatek Multiple Chipsets Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
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