Out-of-bounds Write Affecting zeromq package, versions [,4.3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-ZEROMQ-10078573
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed1 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jul 2021

CVE-2020-36400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade zeromq to version 4.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. ZeroMQ libzmq 4.3.3 has a heap-based buffer overflow in zmq::tcp_read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2021-20235.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1