CVE-2018-16789

Summary

CVECVE-2018-16789
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-03-21 16:00:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
Descriptionlibhttp/url.c in shellinabox through 2.20 has an implementation flaw in the HTTP request parsing logic. By sending a crafted multipart/form-data HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this to force shellinaboxd into an infinite loop, exhausting available CPU resources and taking the service down.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Shellinabox Project Shellinabox All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Full Disclosure: CVE-2018-16789: denial of service in shellinabox MISC seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Shell In A Box 2.2.0 Denial Of Service ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Rolling code for version 2.21 · shellinabox/shellinabox@4f0ecc3 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting. CONFIRM code.google.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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