CVE-2020-37039

HIGH

Frigate 2.02 - Denial of Service via Oversized Command Line Input

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2020-37039. PoCs published by Paras Bhatia.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Frigate 2.02 by sending an 8000-byte buffer of 'A' characters to the application's command line interface, causing it to crash. The PoC is straightforward and relies on a buffer overflow to trigger the crash.

Description

Frigate 2.02 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending oversized input to the command line interface. Attackers can generate a payload of 8000 repeated characters and paste it into the application's command line field to trigger an application crash.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Paras Bhatia · textdoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48613

This exploit demonstrates a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Frigate 2.02 by sending an 8000-byte buffer of 'A' characters to the application's command line interface, causing it to crash. The PoC is straightforward and relies on a buffer overflow to trigger the crash.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Frigate 2.02
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Frigate 2.02 installed on Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 (32-bit)
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48613
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frigate-denial-of-service

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0036
EPSS Percentile 27.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Published Jan 30, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026