SB2018061910 - Out-of-bounds read in Cesanta Mongoose
Published: June 19, 2018 Updated: June 23, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018061910
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 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10945)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in The mg_handle_cgi function in mongoose.c in Mongoose 6.11. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash, or NULL pointer dereference) via an HTTP request, related to the mbuf_insert function.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.