CVE-2020-37165Published

AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 - "license name" Denial of Service

Exact source revision recorded 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.

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cve-program · CVE-2020-37165

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AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized license name. Attackers can generate a 2500-character payload and paste it into the license name field to trigger an application crash.

Source published: 6 Feb 2026 23:14:12 UTC
Source modified: 1 Oct 2026 15:19:36 UTC
Observed here: 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC
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CVSS 4.0 · 6.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1 · 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H