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CVE-2008-5618

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
17/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

imudp in rsyslog 4.x before 4.1.2, 3.21 before 3.21.9 beta, and 3.20 before 3.20.2 generates a message even when it is sent by an unauthorized sender, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a large number of spurious messages.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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