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CVE-2018-1000115 — Major Amplification DDoS Vulnerability
CVE-2018-1000115 — Major Amplification DDoS Vulnerability
(Last updated October 06, 2023) ▾
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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.
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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Data provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Base Score:
7.5 High
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
3.9
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High
General Information
Vendors
- canonical,
- debian,
- memcached,
- redhat
Products
- debian linux 8.0,
- debian linux 9.0,
- memcached 1.5.5,
- openstack 10,
- openstack 11,
- openstack 12,
- openstack 8,
- openstack 9,
- ubuntu linux 14.04,
- ubuntu linux 16.04,
- ubuntu linux 17.10
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