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CVE-2020-37140: Everest 5.50.2100 - 'Open File' Denial of Service

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Everest, later referred to as AIDA64, 5.50.2100 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by manipulating file open functionality. Attackers can generate a 450-byte buffer of repeated characters and paste it into the file open dialog to trigger an application crash.

Affected products

• AIDA64 Extreme: 5.50.2100

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20191223010612/https://www.aida64.com/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48259
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/everest-open-file-denial-of-service

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