CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-3833

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Mar 14, 2019 | Modified: Feb 12, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/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
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Openwsman, versions up to and including 2.6.9, are vulnerable to infinite loop in process_connection() when parsing specially crafted HTTP requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious HTTP request to cause denial of service to openwsman server.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openwsman Openwsman_project * 2.6.9 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat openwsman-0:2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat openwsman-0:2.6.5-7.el8 *
Openwsman Ubuntu bionic *
Openwsman Ubuntu cosmic *
Openwsman Ubuntu devel *
Openwsman Ubuntu disco *
Openwsman Ubuntu eoan *
Openwsman Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Openwsman Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Openwsman Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Openwsman Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
Openwsman Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Openwsman Ubuntu focal *
Openwsman Ubuntu groovy *
Openwsman Ubuntu hirsute *
Openwsman Ubuntu impish *
Openwsman Ubuntu jammy *
Openwsman Ubuntu kinetic *
Openwsman Ubuntu lunar *
Openwsman Ubuntu mantic *
Openwsman Ubuntu noble *
Openwsman Ubuntu oracular *
Openwsman Ubuntu trusty *
Openwsman Ubuntu xenial *

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