Medium
AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 - 'SSH2/username' Denial of Service
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.
Announced Group revision 1
Original source ↗CVE-2020-37166
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2020-37166
AbsoluteTelnet
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
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-2020-37166
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
medium
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #5367 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date