Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in NGINX Open Source - CVE-2013-2070

Vulnerability details

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.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2013-2070

External References

• 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

Related Security Bulletins

• Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in nginx
• Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in nginx (Alpine package)
• Amazon Linux AMI update for nginx
• Gentoo update for nginx