CVE-2024-45163

State: Published
Severity: 9.1 Critical
Published: Aug 22, 2024
Updated: Sep 16, 2026
Reserved: Aug 22, 2024

Description

The Mirai botnet through 2024-08-19 mishandles simultaneous TCP connections to the CNC (command and control) server. Unauthenticated sessions remain open, causing resource consumption. For example, an attacker can send a recognized username (such as root), or can send arbitrary data.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.1 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://cypressthatkid.medium.com/remote-dos-exploit-found-in-mirai-botnet-source-code-27a1aad284f1
https://pastebin.com/6tqHnCva
https://youtu.be/aJkvSr85ML8
https://flowtriq.com/blog/cve-2024-45163-mirai-botnet-kill-switch
https://traztech.ca/research

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