Resource exhaustion in Winfrigate Frigate 2
CVE-2020-37039
Frigate 2.02 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending oversized input to the command line interface. Attackers can generate a payload of 8000 repeated characters and paste it into the application's command line field to trigger an application crash.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (32.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Winfrigate Frigate 2 — versions 2.02
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48613 (exploit)
- web.archive.org/web/20190623044943/http://www.frigate3.com/index.php (product)
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frigate-denial-of-service (third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-37039?
- CVE-2020-37039 is a high-severity vulnerability in Winfrigate Frigate 2, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-01-30.
- How severe is CVE-2020-37039?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.