CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-5097

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-12-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-12-03
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])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the processing of multi-part/form-data requests in the base GoAhead web server application in versions v5.0.1, v.4.1.1 and v3.6.5. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to an infinite loop in the process. The request can be unauthenticated in the form of GET or POST requests and does not require the requested resource to exist on the server.

Affected configurations

• embedthis goahead 3.6.5 • embedthis goahead 4.1.1 • embedthis goahead 5.0.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References