CVE-2018-16844

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16844
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16844.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16844
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-11-07T14:29:00.837Z
Modified
2026-06-26T03:54:30.524008658Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive CPU usage. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngxhttpv2_module (not compiled by default) if the 'http2' option of the 'listen' directive is used in a configuration file.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "13.0"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "apple:xcode",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:apple:xcode:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.10"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/nginx/nginx

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nginx/nginx
Events
Introduced
658813c43b9c930c8fad2cd04600d1aba2ef031b
Fixed
79b5093854dbbae2e8a53df1b08d2ec466b124ba
Introduced
3880706655d9b5aacd991bbee8613e8b00e9864e
Fixed
ac071c1490a30d8acff51383c77d9b72966df6d1
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.9.5"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.14.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "1.15.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.15.6"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

release-1.*
release-1.11.0
release-1.11.1
release-1.11.10
release-1.11.11
release-1.11.12
release-1.11.13
release-1.11.2
release-1.11.3
release-1.11.4
release-1.11.5
release-1.11.6
release-1.11.7
release-1.11.8
release-1.11.9
release-1.13.0
release-1.13.1
release-1.13.10
release-1.13.11
release-1.13.12
release-1.13.2
release-1.13.3
release-1.13.4
release-1.13.5
release-1.13.6
release-1.13.7
release-1.13.8
release-1.13.9
release-1.14.0
release-1.15.0
release-1.15.1
release-1.15.2
release-1.15.3
release-1.15.4
release-1.15.5
release-1.9.10
release-1.9.11
release-1.9.12
release-1.9.13
release-1.9.14
release-1.9.15
release-1.9.5
release-1.9.6
release-1.9.7
release-1.9.8
release-1.9.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16844.json"