Resource exhaustion in iCMS - CVE-2019-17583
Published: October 14, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35156
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-2019-17583
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: iCMS
Affected software:
iCMS
iCMS
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
idreamsoft iCMS 7.0.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a query for many comments, as demonstrated by the admincp.php?app=comment&perpage= substring followed by a large positive integer.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-17583
Install update from vendor's website.