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Vulnerability CVE-2021-28040
Published: 2021-03-05
| Description: |
An issue was discovered in OSSEC 3.6.0. An uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in os_xml.c occurs when a large number of opening and closing XML tags is used. Because recursion is used in _ReadElem without restriction, an attacker can trigger a segmentation fault once unmapped memory is reached. |
Type:
CWE-674 (Uncontrolled Recursion)
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 |
References: |
https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1953
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