CVE-2021-28848

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    CVE-2021-28848

    Published: 3 Jun 2021Last Modified: 20 Oct 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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 words, it does not implement a usleep or similar delay upon processing a title change.

    References: https://mintty.github.io/, https://github.com/mintty/mintty/commit/bd52109993440b6996760aaccb66e68e782762b9, https://github.com/mintty/mintty/compare/3.4.4...3.4.5

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3ad9946764faa5a9ed4fe3dee07e5841cd61493d

    Affected versions

    3.4.4
    3.4.3
    3.4.2
    3.4.1
    3.4.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2021-28848 | CVE-DB