CVE-2020-29540 (GCVE-0-2020-29540)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-08 12:51 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:55
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Summary
API calls in the Translation API feature in Systran Pure Neural Server before 9.7.0 allow a threat actor to use the Systran Pure Neural Server as a Denial-of-Service proxy by sending a large amount of translation requests to a destination host on any given TCP port regardless of whether a web service is running on the destination port.
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