CVE-2020-37215
MSN Password Recovery 1.30 - Denial of Service
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.6 Medium
- Published
- Feb 11, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 5, 2026
- Reserved
- Feb 10, 2026
Description
MSN Password Recovery version 1.30 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized input in the registration code field. Attackers can generate a 9000-byte buffer of repeated characters and paste it into the 'User Name and Registration Code' 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:H/I:N/A:N | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
MSN Password RecoveryTop Password Software |
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References
- ExploitDB-47839exploit
- Vendor Homepageproduct
- VulnCheck Advisory: MSN Password Recovery 1.30 - Denial of Servicethird-party-advisory
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