#VU14089 Improper input validation in SmartThings Hub STH-ETH-250 - CVE-2018-3908 

 

#VU14089 Improper input validation in SmartThings Hub STH-ETH-250 - CVE-2018-3908

Published: July 30, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14089
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-3908
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
SmartThings Hub STH-ETH-250
Software vendor:
Samsung

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary data on the target system.

The weakness exists in the REST parser of video-core's HTTP server of the Samsung SmartThings Hub due to incorrect handling of pipelined HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send an HTTP request and overwrite the previously parsed HTTP method, URL and body.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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