{"id":76538,"date":"2026-02-07T03:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2020-37166-absolutetelnet-11-12-ssh2-username-denial-of-service\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T03:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:15:57","slug":"cve-2020-37166-absolutetelnet-11-12-ssh2-username-denial-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2020-37166-absolutetelnet-11-12-ssh2-username-denial-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2020-37166 &#8211; AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 &#8211; &#8216;SSH2\/username&#8217; Denial of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2020-37166<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 7, 2026, 12:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 3\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the SSH2 username input field that allows local attackers to crash the application. Attackers can overwrite the username field with a 1000-byte buffer, causing the application to become unresponsive and terminate.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 6.9 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2020-37166 Published : Feb. 7, 2026, 12:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 3\u00a0minutes ago Description : AbsoluteTelnet 11.12 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the SSH2 username input field that allows local attackers to crash the application. Attackers can overwrite the username field with a 1000-byte buffer, causing the application to become unresponsive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}