#VU47271 Resource exhaustion in KDE Connect - CVE-2020-26164
Published: October 2, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU47271
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/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-2020-26164
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
KDE Connect
KDE Connect
Software vendor:
KDE.org
KDE.org
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing network packets. A remote attacker on a local network can send specially crafted packets to other hosts running kdeconnect and cause the application to consume large amounts of CPU and memory.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.