CVE-2024-45163

critical

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.

References

https://youtu.be/aJkvSr85ML8

https://pastebin.com/6tqHnCva

https://flowtriq.com/blog/cve-2024-45163-mirai-botnet-kill-switch

https://cypressthatkid.medium.com/remote-dos-exploit-found-in-mirai-botnet-source-code-27a1aad284f1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-22

Updated: 2026-03-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00136