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CVE-2018-16843

Published: Nov 7, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive memory consumption. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngx_http_v2_module (not compiled by default) if the 'http2' option of the 'listen' directive is used in a configuration file.

VendorProductVersions

[UNKNOWN]

nginx

affected
1.15.6
affected
1.14.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

References

DSA-4335
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
RHSA-2018:3680
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2018:3681
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
105868
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
1042038
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
RHSA-2018:3653
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
USN-3812-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
openSUSE-SU-2019:2120
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
20210921 APPLE-SA-2021-09-20-4 Xcode 13
mailing-list
x_refsource_FULLDISC

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