CVE-2017-7185

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7185

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7185.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7185

Published

2017-04-10T15:59:00.503Z

Modified

2025-11-26T13:59:57.899533Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mghttpmultipartwaitfor_boundary function in mongoose.c in Cesanta Mongoose Embedded Web Server Library 6.7 and earlier and Mongoose OS 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a multipart/form-data POST request without a MIME boundary string.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/cesanta/mongoose

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Fixed

b8402ed0733e3f244588b61ad5fedd093e3cf9cc

Affected versions

3.*

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.6

3.7

3.8

4.*

4.0

4.1

5.*

5.0

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

5.5_20140120

5.6

6.*

6.0

6.1

6.2

6.3

6.4

6.5

6.6

6.7

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7185.json"

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2017-7185-72c6ea9f",
        "digest": {
            "length": 655.0,
            "function_hash": "41249086661872666392535856094281661402"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "function": "mg_http_multipart_wait_for_boundary",
            "file": "mongoose.c"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/commit/b8402ed0733e3f244588b61ad5fedd093e3cf9cc",
        "signature_type": "Function"
    },
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2017-7185-74486d70",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "339889822355170891032407714099899695797",
                "207737993900940319777937554213307134569",
                "42031312556500484625743211277575000719"
            ]
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "file": "mongoose.c"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/commit/b8402ed0733e3f244588b61ad5fedd093e3cf9cc",
        "signature_type": "Line"
    }
]

Git / github.com/cesanta/mongoose-os

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-os
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Fixed

042eb437973a202d00589b13d628181c6de5cf5b

Affected versions

1.*

1.0-rc1

1.1

1.2

Other

Beta

alpha1

alpha2

beta2

beta3

beta4

alpha1.*

alpha1.1

alpha2.*

alpha2.1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7185.json"

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2017-7185-3cd5eefc",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "339889822355170891032407714099899695797",
                "207737993900940319777937554213307134569",
                "42031312556500484625743211277575000719"
            ]
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "file": "mongoose/mongoose.c"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-os/commit/042eb437973a202d00589b13d628181c6de5cf5b",
        "signature_type": "Line"
    },
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2017-7185-94a9b390",
        "digest": {
            "length": 655.0,
            "function_hash": "41249086661872666392535856094281661402"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "function": "mg_http_multipart_wait_for_boundary",
            "file": "mongoose/mongoose.c"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-os/commit/042eb437973a202d00589b13d628181c6de5cf5b",
        "signature_type": "Function"
    }
]