DNS attack in mitmproxy - CVE-2018-14505

 

DNS attack in mitmproxy - CVE-2018-14505

Published: August 10, 2018 / Updated: August 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14310
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14505
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Python.org
Affected software:
mitmproxy

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct DNS attack.

The weakness exists due to insufficient protection against DNS rebinding in the mitmweb interface. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, set the scripts config option, gain access to the sniffed data or run arbitrary Python scripts on the filesystem to manipulate DNS information.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-14505

Update to version 4.0.4.

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