CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-11615

Incorrect Regular Expression

Published: Aug 30, 2018 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
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
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to deny service on vulnerable installations of npm mosca 2.8.1. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of topics. A crafted regular expression can cause the broker to crash. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to deny access to the target system. Was ZDI-CAN-6306.

Weakness

The product specifies a regular expression in a way that causes data to be improperly matched or compared.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mosca Mosca_project 2.8.1 (including) 2.8.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References