01 Record
CVE-2020-29596
MiniWeb HTTP server 0.8.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long name for the first parameter in a POST request.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
MiniWeb HTTP server 0.8.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long name for the first parameter in a POST request.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.69% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-12-21 21:36Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 16:55Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-12-07
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 0a57d80c43ff8d3cd56100b6f6ee6bda360b2cd10cbc7a6fc6f2331d36f7ad02
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- sourceforge.nethttps://sourceforge.net/projects/miniweb/files/miniweb/0.8/
- packetstormsecurity.comhttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160470/MiniWeb-HTTP-Server-0.8.19-Buffer-Overflow.html
- www.exploit-db.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49247
- securityforeveryone.comhttps://securityforeveryone.com/blog/miniweb-http-server-vulnerability-0-day-cve-2020-29596