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CVE-2020-37166mediumCWE-120

AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 - 'SSH2/username' Denial of Service

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.9epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 87% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the SSH2 username input field that allows local attackers to crash the application. Attackers can overwrite the username field with a 1000-byte buffer, causing the application to become unresponsive and terminate.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N