CVE-2018-10868

high

Description

redhat-certification 7 does not properly restrict the number of recursive definitions of entities in XML documents, allowing an unauthenticated user to run a "Billion Laugh Attack" by replying to XMLRPC methods when getting the status of an host.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593776

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10868

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-05-26

Updated: 2023-02-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High