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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-28349

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:11 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-28349

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Nov 2020, 01:15 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28349",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-28349",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-28349",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:04.674158491Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/brocaar/chirpstack-network-server/commit/874fc1a9b01045ebe8a340f0bb01ed19e8256e60",
        "https://github.com/brocaar/chirpstack-network-server/commit/f996bb0c6c85281b5658f59ff09db1b4a73db453",
        "https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/lorawan-mqtt-what-to-know-when-securing-your-iot-network"
      ],
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    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384183,
  "published_at": "2020-11-09T01:15:13.71+00:00"
}