Vulnerability CVE-2018-15505


Published: 2018-08-17   Modified: 2018-08-18

Description:
An issue was discovered in Embedthis GoAhead before 4.0.1 and Appweb before 7.0.2. An HTTP POST request with a specially crafted "Host" header field may cause a NULL pointer dereference and thus cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by the lack of a trailing ']' character in an IPv6 address.

Type:

CWE-476

(NULL Pointer Dereference)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Embedthis -> Appweb 
Embedthis -> Goahead 

 References:
https://github.com/embedthis/appweb/commit/16e6979c82297d5fc4f8661e7ada975f51e4dfa9
https://github.com/embedthis/appweb/issues/605
https://github.com/embedthis/goahead/issues/264

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