CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-45163

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2024-08-22 Modified 2026-09-16 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2024-08-22
Last modified
2026-09-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References