CVE-2024-45163

9.1 criticalEPSS 0.8%

Critical (9.1). EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.1 critical

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

EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-400
Published: 2024-08-22
Modified: 2026-09-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

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

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