CVE-2018-16844

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Publication date:

07/11/2018

Last modified:

22/02/2022

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 CPU usage. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngx_http_v2_module (not compiled by default) if the &#39;http2&#39; option of the &#39;listen&#39; directive is used in a configuration file.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx::::::::	1.9.5 (including)	1.14.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx::::::::	1.15.0 (including)	1.15.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:xcode::::::::		13.0 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2018-16844

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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