Resource exhaustion in Teeworlds - CVE-2020-12066

 

Resource exhaustion in Teeworlds - CVE-2020-12066

Published: April 22, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU30301
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12066
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Teeworlds
Software vendor:
Teeworlds

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

CServer::SendMsg in engine/server/server.cpp in Teeworlds 0.7.x before 0.7.5 allows remote attackers to shut down the server.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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