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CVE-2019-16764

Published: Nov 25, 2019

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

The use of `String.to_atom/1` in PowAssent is susceptible to denial of service attacks. In `PowAssent.Phoenix.AuthorizationController` a value is fetched from the user provided params, and `String.to_atom/1` is used to convert the binary value to an atom so it can be used to fetch the provider configuration value. This is unsafe as it is user provided data, and can be used to fill up the whole atom table of ~1M which will cause the app to crash.

VendorProductVersions

pow-auth

pow_assent

affected
< 0.4.4 - < 0.4.4

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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