CVE-2021-28847 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2021-06-03

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mobatek:mobaxterm:*:*:*:*:home:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-15501	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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00467.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html
https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/preview.html

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Mobatek Mobaxterm

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-06-03T10:58:16.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T21:55:11.897Z

Reserved: 2021-03-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-28847

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-06-03T11:15:08.627

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:00:19.530

Link: CVE-2021-28847

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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