CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-37211

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.33%

25th percentile - higher than 25% of all known CVEs

Summary

SpotIM plugin version 2.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability. An attacker can crash the application by entering a long string (1000 characters) in the registration name field.

Risk Assessment

The risk is that an attacker can easily disrupt the application's operation without special privileges, potentially causing service unavailability for users.

Recommendation

Update the SpotIM plugin to the latest version that includes a fix limiting the length of input in the name field. If an update is unavailable, implement server-side input length validation.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

SpotIM 2.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by inputting a large buffer in the registration name field. Attackers can generate a 1000-character payload and paste it into the 'Name' field to trigger an application crash.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS