PT-2018-2686
CVE-2019-3821
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Published
2018-12-06
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Updated
2025-05-05
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.5
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
CivetWeb (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to resource management errors in the CivetWeb web server. It can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Specifically, when CivetWeb is used as a frontend for a Ceph RGW server with SSL enabled, an unauthenticated attacker can create multiple connections to the Ceph RADOS gateway, exhausting file descriptors for the ceph-radosgw service and resulting in a remote denial of service.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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