CVE-2024-45163

critical

Description

The Mirai botnet through 2024-08-19 mishandles simultaneous TCP connections to the CNC (command and control) server. Unauthenticated sessions remain open, causing resource consumption. For example, an attacker can send a recognized username (such as root), or can send arbitrary data.

References

https://youtu.be/aJkvSr85ML8

https://pastebin.com/6tqHnCva

https://cypressthatkid.medium.com/remote-dos-exploit-found-in-mirai-botnet-source-code-27a1aad284f1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-22

Updated: 2024-08-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical