What is CVE-2021-28848?

CVE-2021-28848 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mintty_project Mintty, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-06-03.

How severe is CVE-2021-28848?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Mintty_project Mintty

CVE-2021-28848

Mintty before 3.4.5 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (Windows GUI hang) by telling the Mintty window to change its title repeatedly at high speed, which results in many SetWindowTextA or SetWindowTextW calls. In other wor…

EPSS: 0.016 (73.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Mintty_project Mintty
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-28848?: CVE-2021-28848 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mintty_project Mintty, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-06-03.
How severe is CVE-2021-28848?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.