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CVE-2020-37119

CRITICAL Exploitation: PoC
9.8
CVSS 3.1
Description
Nsauditor 3.0.28 and 3.2.1.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the DNS Lookup tool that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by overwriting memory. Attackers can craft a malicious DNS query payload to trigger a three-byte overwrite, bypass ASLR, and execute shellcode through a carefully constructed exploit.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2020-37119
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
VulnCheck
Reserved
2026-02-03 16:27 UTC
Published
2026-02-05 16:13 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-15 01:24 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-121
Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Vendor / Product
Nsasoft / Nsauditor
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
PoC
Automatable
yes
Tech. Impact
total
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Nsasoft Nsauditor 3.2.1.0, 3.0.28
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-121 cna Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS scores (2)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
9.8 CRITICAL 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.4 HIGH 4.0 cna CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References (3)
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