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CVE-2020-37166

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-37166 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting AbsoluteTelnet 11.12, where a local attacker can crash the application by providing a 1000-byte buffer in the SSH2 username field. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5, this vulnerability requires local access and low privileges, leading to application unavailability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:celestialsoftware:absolutetelnet:11.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

6.9MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
11.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 15,937 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

celestialsoftware.net
Product
exploit-db.com / exploits/48010
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
vulncheck.com / advisories/absolutetelnet-sshusername-denial-of-service
Broken Link