CVE-2024-45163

Aug. 22, 2024, 3:35 p.m.

Awaiting Analysis
CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

Products

Mirai botnet

Source

cve@mitre.org

Tags

CVE-2024-45163 details

Published : Aug. 22, 2024, 4:15 a.m.
Last Modified : Aug. 22, 2024, 3:35 p.m.

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.

CVSS Score

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.1 10

Weakness

Weakness Name Description
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

9.1

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

5.2

Base Severity

CRITICAL

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