Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in nginx - CVE-2013-2070
Published: July 20, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32679
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2070
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: F5 Networks
Affected software:
nginx
nginx
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.
http/modules/ngx_http_proxy_module.c in nginx 1.1.4 through 1.2.8 and 1.3.0 through 1.4.0, when proxy_pass is used with untrusted HTTP servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and obtain sensitive information from worker process memory via a crafted proxy response, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-2028.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-2070
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105950.html
- http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000114.html
- http://nginx.org/download/patch.2013.proxy.txt
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/291
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55181
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-04.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2721
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/13/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59824
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962525
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84172