cve-2019-5097
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-12-03 21:49
Modified
2024-08-04 19:47
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
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.
References
talos-cna@cisco.comhttps://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0889Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0889Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a EmbedThis Version: EmbedThis GoAhead Web Server v5.0.1 EmbedThis GoAhead Web Server v4.1.1 EmbedThis GoAhead Web Server v3.6.5
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