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TI-2020-19329 Aliases CVE-2020-37194GHSA-w5c2-6978-qx5h

Backup Key Recovery Recover Keys Crashed Hard Disk Drive 2.2.5 - 'Key' Denial of Service

Priority MEDIUM 60CWE-120Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Active
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · Low
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

Backup Key Recovery 2.2.5 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an overly long registration key. Attackers can generate a 1000-character payload file and paste it into the registration key field to trigger an application crash.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00377 31st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
NsasoftNsauditor Backup Key Recovery Recover Keys Crashed Hard Disk Drive2.2.5—No fix listedCNA
  • Nsauditor Backup Key Recovery Recover Keys Crashed Hard Disk Drive VendorNsasoft Affected 2.2.5 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-37194
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w5c2-6978-qx5h

References

Exploit 1

Other 1

  • TI-2020-19254 Nsauditor 3.2.1.0 - Buffer Overflow (SEH+ASLR bypass (3 bytes overwrite)) CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2019-15783 NetShareWatcher 1.5.8.0 SEH Buffer Overflow CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
  • TI-2019-15390 SpotAuditor 5.3.2 - 'Base64' Local Buffer Overflow (SEH) CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2018-15438 Nsauditor 3.0.28.0 Local SEH Buffer Overflow CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
  • TI-2021-22509 Nsauditor 3.2.2.0 - 'Event Description' Denial of Service CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.7
  • TI-2021-22431 Nsauditor 3.2.3 - Denial of Service (PoC) CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.7
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Sources

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