CVE-2020-37031

Simple Startup Manager 1.17 - 'File' Local Buffer Overflow

CVSS 8.6 HIGHEPSS 0.2%CWE-787

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 8.6EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

30 Jan 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

Simple Startup Manager 1.17 contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by overwriting memory through the 'File' input parameter. Attackers can craft a malicious payload with 268 bytes to trigger code execution, bypassing DEP and overwriting memory addresses to launch calc.exe.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

Ashkon Software · Simple Startup Manager

References

https://www.ashkon.com/startup_manager.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48678 https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/simple-startup-manager-file-local-buffer-overflow