SB2018012318 - Denial of service in DirectAdmin
Published: January 23, 2018 Updated: October 30, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018012318
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-18045)
CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of unspecified user-supplied input, when the "email_ftp_password_change" option is set to a non-zero value. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the application and trigger denial of service conditions.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.