CVE-2017-2891

2017-11-0716:00:00

talos

www.cve.org

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.01

Percentile

83.7%

JSON

An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the HTTP server implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. An ordinary HTTP POST request with a CGI target can cause a reuse of previously freed pointer potentially resulting in remote code execution. An attacker needs to send this HTTP request over the network to trigger this vulnerability.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Mongoose",
    "vendor": "Cesanta",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "6.8"
      }
    ]
  }
]