High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 30, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2020-37038

Description

Code Blocks 20.03 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by manipulating input in the FSymbols search field. Attackers can paste a large payload of 5000 repeated characters into the search field to trigger an application crash.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.codeblocks.orgnvd
sourceforge.net/projects/codeblocksnvd
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48617nvd
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/code-blocks-denial-of-servicenvd

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