Resource exhaustion - CVE-2018-6532

 

Resource exhaustion - CVE-2018-6532

Published: February 27, 2018 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33503
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6532
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
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Affected software:

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. By sending specially crafted (authenticated and unauthenticated) requests, an attacker can exhaust a lot of memory on the server side, triggering the OOM killer.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-6532

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources