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AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 - "license name" Denial of Service

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized license name. Attackers can generate a 2500-character payload and paste it into the license name field to trigger an application crash.

Announced Group revision 1
Original source ↗

CVE-2020-37165

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2020-37165

AbsoluteTelnet

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "vendor": "Celestial Software",
    "product": "AbsoluteTelnet",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "11.12"
      }
    ]
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2020-37165

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#5365 · Revision 1
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