CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-37212

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

SpotMSN 2.4.6 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the registration name input field. An attacker can crash the application by pasting a 1000-character payload into the 'Name' field.

Risk Assessment

The risk is that an attacker can intentionally crash the application, causing service disruption and potential loss of access for users.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update SpotMSN to the latest patched version and implement input length validation for the name field.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

SpotMSN 2.4.6 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the registration name input field that allows attackers to crash the application. 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