Security advisory
An inaccurate frame deduplication process in ChirpStack Network Server 3.9.0 allows a malicious gateway to perform uplink Denial of Service via malformed frequency attributes in CollectAndCallOnceCollect in internal/uplink/collect.go. NOTE: the vendor's position is that there are no "guarantees that allowing untrusted LoRa gateways to the network should still result in a secure network.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-28349
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An inaccurate frame deduplication process in ChirpStack Network Server 3.9.0 allows a malicious gateway to perform uplink Denial of Service via malformed frequency attributes in CollectAndCallOnceCollect in internal/uplink/collect.go. NOTE: the vendor's position is that there are no "guarantees that allowing untrusted LoRa gateways to the network should still result in a secure network.
osv:CVE-2020-28349
Complete source record
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