High
Security advisory
An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the freeDiameter functionality of freeDiameter 1.3.2. A specially crafted Diameter request can trigger a memory corruption resulting in denial-of-service. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-6098
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the freeDiameter functionality of freeDiameter 1.3.2. A specially crafted Diameter request can trigger a memory corruption resulting in denial-of-service. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.
osv:CVE-2020-6098
Complete source record
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