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HistoryMar 20, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

K63525027 : Memcached vulnerability CVE-2018-1000115

2018-03-2000:00:00
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7.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.964 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.6%

Security Advisory Description

Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server that can result in denial of service via network flood (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due to the disabling of the UDP protocol by default. (CVE-2018-1000115)

Impact

There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.