CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16789
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
libhttp/url.c in shellinabox through 2.20 has an implementation flaw in the HTTP request parsing logic. By sending a crafted multipart/form-data HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this to force shellinaboxd into an infinite loop, exhausting available CPU resources and taking the service down.
Affected configurations
• shellinabox project shellinabox (<= 2.20)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149978/Shell-In-A-Box-2.2.0-Denial-Of-Service.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Oct/50 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://code.google.com/archive/p/shellinabox/issues Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox/commit/4f0ecc31ac6f985e0dd3f5a52cbfc0e9251f6361 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149978/Shell-In-A-Box-2.2.0-Denial-Of-Service.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Oct/50 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://code.google.com/archive/p/shellinabox/issues Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox/commit/4f0ecc31ac6f985e0dd3f5a52cbfc0e9251f6361 Patch, Third Party Advisory