CVE-2014-9708

Summary

CVECVE-2014-9708
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-03-31 14:59:07 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionEmbedthis Appweb before 4.6.6 and 5.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a Range header with an empty value, as demonstrated by "Range: x=,".

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-476 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Embedthis Appweb All All All All
Application Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Appweb Web Server Denial Of Service ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oss-security - Advisory: CVE-2014-9708: Appweb Web Server af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch
oss-security - Re: Advisory: CVE-2014-9708: Appweb Web Server af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch
Appweb CVE-2014-9708 Null Pointer Deference Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/535028/100/1400/threaded af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Oracle Critical Patch Update - July 2016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CEC Juniper Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 supportportal.juniper.net Third Party Advisory
DEV: switch to use ssplit and mprReadJson · embedthis/appweb@7e6a925 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Broken Link, Patch
CVE-2014-9708 Web interface denial of service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.paloaltonetworks.com Third Party Advisory
Bad HTTP Range Header · Issue #413 · embedthis/appweb · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Broken Link, Exploit, Issue Tracking
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Full Disclosure: Advisory: CVE-2014-9708: Appweb Web Server af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Palo Alto PAN-OS Range Header Null Pointer Dereference Lets Remote Users Cause the Target Service to Crash - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Full Disclosure: Re: [oss-security] Advisory: CVE-2014-9708: Appweb Web Server af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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