CVE-2018-16789
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16789
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16789.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16789
- Downstream
- Published
- 2019-03-21T16:00:22.547Z
- Modified
- 2026-05-18T15:06:30.721107Z
- 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
-
libhttp/url.c in shellinabox through 2.20 has an implementation flaw in the HTTP request parsing logic. By sending a crafted multipart/form-data HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this to force shellinaboxd into an infinite loop, exhausting available CPU resources and taking the service down.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "2.20" } ], "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:shellinabox_project:shellinabox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "source": "CPE_FIELD" }