CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-24863

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Published: Apr 18, 2022 | Modified: Apr 27, 2022
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
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

http-swagger is an open source wrapper to automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0. In versions of http-swagger prior to 1.2.6 an attacker may perform a denial of service attack consisting of memory exhaustion on the host system. The cause of the memory exhaustion is down to improper handling of http methods. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may to restrict the path prefix to the GET method as a workaround.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Http-swagger Http-swagger_project * *

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