CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16843
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive memory consumption. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngx_http_v2_module (not compiled by default) if the 'http2' option of the 'listen' directive is used in a configuration file.
Affected configurations
• f5 nginx (> 1.9.5 < 1.14.1)
• f5 nginx (> 1.15.0 < 1.15.6)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• opensuse leap 15.1
• apple xcode (< 13.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2018/000220.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105868 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042038 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3653 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3680 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3681 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16843 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212818 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3812-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4335 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2018/000220.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105868 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042038 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3653 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3680 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3681 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16843 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212818 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3812-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4335 Third Party Advisory