CVE-2022-38337

2022-12-0500:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

sftp connection

mobaxterm

hardcoded password

dos

fail2ban

9.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

59.3%

JSON

When aborting a SFTP connection, MobaXterm before v22.1 sends a hardcoded password to the server. The server treats this as an invalid login attempt which can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the user if services like fail2ban are used.

References

docs.ssh-mitm.at/vulnerabilities/CVE-2022-38337.html

mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html