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CVE-2024-45163
Published: Aug 22, 2024
Modified: Mar 18, 2026
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
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