Denial of service in TYPO3 - #VU16759
Published: December 28, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16759
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: TYPO3
Affected software:
TYPO3
TYPO3
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition.
The vulnerability exists in TYPO3’s built-in record registration functionality (aka “basic shopping cart”) using recs URL parameters due to improper ensurement that anonymous user sessions are valid. A remote attacker can create an arbitrary amount of individual session-data records in the database and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 7.6.32, 8.7.21.