CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-28873

HIGH
7.5
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

Fluxbb 1.5.11 is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability by sending an extremely long password via the user login form. When a long password is sent, the password hashing process will result in CPU and memory exhaustion on the server.

CWE-916

How to fix

No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.

Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.89%probability of exploitation in 30 days
55thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 55% of all known CVEs.

References

Product1
Other references1
Embed a live status badge for CVE-2020-28873
CVE-2020-28873 severity badge

Markdown

[![CVE-2020-28873](https://tridentstack.com/cve/badge/CVE-2020-28873.svg)](https://tridentstack.com/cve/CVE-2020-28873)

HTML

<a href="https://tridentstack.com/cve/CVE-2020-28873"><img src="https://tridentstack.com/cve/badge/CVE-2020-28873.svg" alt="CVE-2020-28873"></a>

Find and fix vulnerabilities across your fleet

TridentStack Control continuously scans your Windows, macOS, and Linux fleet for known vulnerabilities, prioritizes them by severity and active exploitation, and patches them automatically.

Start free

This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.