Vulnerability · Published Dec 21, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-29596
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.7% (higher than 86% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.7%top 14.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
MiniWeb HTTP server 0.8.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long name for the first parameter in a POST request.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/miniweb/files/miniweb/0.8/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160470/MiniWeb-HTTP-Server-0.8.19-Buffer-Overflow.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49247 x_refsource_MISC
- https://securityforeveryone.com/blog/miniweb-http-server-vulnerability-0-day-cve-2020-29596 x_refsource_MISC