CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2020-3862 — A denial of service issue was addressed with improved memory handling
A denial of service issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.3.1 and iPadOS 13.3.1, tvOS 13.3.1, Safari 13.0.5, iTunes for Windows 12.10.4, iCloud for Windows 11.0, iCloud for Windows 7.17. A malicious website may be able to cause a denial of service.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2020-02-27
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- apple/platform
Affected products
- apple / icloud
- apple / itunes
- apple / safari
- apple / ipados
- apple / iphone_os
- apple / tvos
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Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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