CVE-2020-37038

Summary

Code Blocks 20.03 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by manipulating input in the FSymbols search field. Attackers can paste a large payload of 5000 repeated characters into the search field to trigger an application crash.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48617
• http://www.codeblocks.org/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/codeblocks
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/code-blocks-denial-of-service

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