CVE-2020-37165

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Celestial SoftwareAbsoluteTelnet11.12affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References