CVE-2018-15505 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2018-15505

An issue was discovered in Embedthis GoAhead before 4.0.1 and...

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in Embedthis GoAhead before 4.0.1 and Appweb before 7.0.2. An HTTP POST request with a specially crafted "Host" header field may cause a NULL pointer dereference and thus cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by the lack of a trailing ']' character in an IPv6 address.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

appweb, goahead, junos
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 12.3, 12.3x48, 15.1, 15.1x49, 15.1x53, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 18.1

Timeline

Official Publish: August 18th, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.