CVE-2020-37038
Code Blocks 20.03 - Denial Of Service
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.6 Medium
- Published
- Jan 30, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 28, 2026
- Reserved
- Jan 28, 2026
Description
Code Blocks 20.03 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by manipulating input in the FSymbols search field. Attackers can paste a large payload of 5000 repeated characters into the search field to trigger an application crash.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 4.6 Medium | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Code::BlocksCode::Blocks |
|
References
- ExploitDB-48617exploit
- Code Blocks Official Homepageproduct
- Code Blocks SourceForge Pageproduct
- VulnCheck Advisory: Code Blocks 20.03 - Denial Of Servicethird-party-advisory
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