Vulnerability · Published Jun 3, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-28847
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 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 26.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
MobaXterm before 21.0 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (Windows GUI hang) via tab title change requests that are sent repeatedly at high speed, which results in many SetWindowTextA or SetWindowTextW calls.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/preview.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html x_refsource_CONFIRM