CVE-2016-0747

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0747
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-0747.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-0747
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-02-15T19:59:02.123Z
Modified
2026-03-20T11:00:45.408069Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not properly limit CNAME resolution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process resource consumption) via vectors related to arbitrary name resolution.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/nginx/nginx

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nginx/nginx
Events
Introduced
cb1cdc7426ba5470197f1a1ca5e8fe485223e558
Fixed
759af1a42404d87a2ba51dc94e902b7a5ea5491e
Introduced
94dcfa5fe1501f35d7f22ae6050e2965939480d6
Fixed
0269c7a312bf754dcee68a36d055aea0989046f3
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.6.18"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.8.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "1.9.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.9.10"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

release-0.*
release-0.6.18
release-0.6.19
release-0.6.20
release-0.6.21
release-0.6.22
release-0.6.23
release-0.6.24
release-0.6.25
release-0.6.26
release-0.6.27
release-0.6.28
release-0.6.29
release-0.6.30
release-0.6.31
release-0.7.0
release-0.7.1
release-0.7.10
release-0.7.11
release-0.7.12
release-0.7.13
release-0.7.14
release-0.7.15
release-0.7.16
release-0.7.17
release-0.7.18
release-0.7.19
release-0.7.2
release-0.7.20
release-0.7.21
release-0.7.22
release-0.7.23
release-0.7.24
release-0.7.25
release-0.7.26
release-0.7.27
release-0.7.28
release-0.7.29
release-0.7.3
release-0.7.30
release-0.7.31
release-0.7.32
release-0.7.33
release-0.7.34
release-0.7.35
release-0.7.36
release-0.7.37
release-0.7.38
release-0.7.39
release-0.7.4
release-0.7.40
release-0.7.41
release-0.7.42
release-0.7.43
release-0.7.44
release-0.7.45
release-0.7.46
release-0.7.47
release-0.7.48
release-0.7.49
release-0.7.5
release-0.7.50
release-0.7.51
release-0.7.52
release-0.7.53
release-0.7.54
release-0.7.55
release-0.7.56
release-0.7.57
release-0.7.58
release-0.7.59
release-0.7.6
release-0.7.7
release-0.7.8
release-0.7.9
release-0.8.0
release-0.8.1
release-0.8.10
release-0.8.11
release-0.8.12
release-0.8.13
release-0.8.14
release-0.8.15
release-0.8.16
release-0.8.17
release-0.8.18
release-0.8.19
release-0.8.2
release-0.8.20
release-0.8.21
release-0.8.22
release-0.8.23
release-0.8.24
release-0.8.25
release-0.8.26
release-0.8.27
release-0.8.28
release-0.8.29
release-0.8.3
release-0.8.30
release-0.8.31
release-0.8.32
release-0.8.33
release-0.8.34
release-0.8.35
release-0.8.36
release-0.8.37
release-0.8.38
release-0.8.39
release-0.8.4
release-0.8.40
release-0.8.41
release-0.8.42
release-0.8.43
release-0.8.44
release-0.8.45
release-0.8.46
release-0.8.47
release-0.8.48
release-0.8.49
release-0.8.5
release-0.8.50
release-0.8.51
release-0.8.52
release-0.8.53
release-0.8.6
release-0.8.7
release-0.8.8
release-0.8.9
release-0.9.0
release-0.9.1
release-0.9.2
release-0.9.3
release-0.9.4
release-0.9.5
release-0.9.6
release-0.9.7
release-1.*
release-1.0.0
release-1.0.1
release-1.0.2
release-1.0.3
release-1.0.4
release-1.0.5
release-1.1.0
release-1.1.1
release-1.1.10
release-1.1.11
release-1.1.12
release-1.1.13
release-1.1.14
release-1.1.15
release-1.1.16
release-1.1.17
release-1.1.18
release-1.1.19
release-1.1.2
release-1.1.3
release-1.1.4
release-1.1.5
release-1.1.6
release-1.1.7
release-1.1.8
release-1.1.9
release-1.2.0
release-1.3.0
release-1.3.1
release-1.3.10
release-1.3.11
release-1.3.12
release-1.3.13
release-1.3.14
release-1.3.15
release-1.3.16
release-1.3.2
release-1.3.3
release-1.3.4
release-1.3.5
release-1.3.6
release-1.3.7
release-1.3.8
release-1.3.9
release-1.4.0
release-1.5.0
release-1.5.1
release-1.5.10
release-1.5.11
release-1.5.12
release-1.5.13
release-1.5.2
release-1.5.3
release-1.5.4
release-1.5.5
release-1.5.6
release-1.5.7
release-1.5.8
release-1.5.9
release-1.7.0
release-1.7.1
release-1.7.10
release-1.7.11
release-1.7.12
release-1.7.2
release-1.7.3
release-1.7.4
release-1.7.5
release-1.7.6
release-1.7.7
release-1.7.8
release-1.7.9
release-1.8.0
release-1.9.0
release-1.9.1
release-1.9.2
release-1.9.3
release-1.9.4
release-1.9.5
release-1.9.6
release-1.9.7
release-1.9.8
release-1.9.9

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "15.10"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "42.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "42.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "13.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-0747.json"