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FKIE_CVE-2024-45163

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-08-22 04:15 - Updated: 2026-09-16 21:17

Severity

9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Summary

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

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	https://cypressthatkid.medium.com/remote-dos-exploit-found-in-mirai-botnet-source-code-27a1aad284f1
	cve@mitre.org	https://flowtriq.com/blog/cve-2024-45163-mirai-botnet-kill-switch
	cve@mitre.org	https://pastebin.com/6tqHnCva
	cve@mitre.org	https://traztech.ca/research
	cve@mitre.org	https://youtu.be/aJkvSr85ML8

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "lastModified": "2026-09-16T21:17:06.310",
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CVE-2024-45163 (GCVE-0-2024-45163)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-22 00:00 – Updated: 2026-09-16 20:30

Summary

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-22 14:21 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://cypressthatkid.medium.com/remote-dos-expl…
https://pastebin.com/6tqHnCva
https://youtu.be/aJkvSr85ML8
https://flowtriq.com/blog/cve-2024-45163-mirai-bo…
https://traztech.ca/research

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
mirai	botnet	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024-08-19 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:mirai:botnet::::::::

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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