CVE-2020-36995 (GCVE-0-2020-36995)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-29 14:28 – Updated: 2026-05-12 20:46
VLAI
Title
Mocha Telnet Lite for iOS 4.2 - 'User' Denial of Service
Summary
Mocha Telnet Lite for iOS 4.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by manipulating the user configuration input. Attackers can overwrite the 'User' field with 350 bytes of repeated characters to trigger an application crash and prevent normal functionality.
Severity
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
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2020-08-03 00:00
Credits
Luis Martinez
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