CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-4864

Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Published: May 12, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

H2O versions 2.0.3 and earlier and 2.1.0-beta2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) via format string specifiers in a template file via fastcgi, mruby, proxy, redirect or reproxy.

Weakness

The product uses a function that accepts a format string as an argument, but the format string originates from an external source.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
H2o Dena 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.3 (including)
H2o Dena 2.1.0 (including) 2.1.0 (including)
H2o Dena 2.1.0-beta1 (including) 2.1.0-beta1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References