Service interruption via oversized SCP path
Published Jan 19, 2024 · Updated Jun 17, 2025
Denial of service in Labtam Inc. ProSSHD 1.2 on Windows allows remote authenticated users to interrupt the SSH service via an SCP request. The public exploit authenticates over SSH, then passes a 500-byte path of repeated characters to the SCP download operation. The affected code remains undisclosed, and published sources do not state whether the service crashes, hangs, or requires manual recovery.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Labtam Inc. ProSSHD 1.2 on Windows allows remote authenticated users to interrupt the SSH service via an SCP request. The public exploit authenticates over SSH, then passes a 500-byte path of repeated characters to the SCP download operation. The affected code remains undisclosed, and published sources do not state whether the service crashes, hangs, or requires manual recovery.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-0725
- Published
- Jan 19, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Labtam Inc.
- Product
- ProSSHD
- Classifications
- CWE-404, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 19, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.2
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Public exploit references
- ProSSHD 1.2 20090726 Denial of Serviceproof of concept · unverified
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