Infinite Loop Denial of Service Vulnerability in shellinabox

CVE-2018-16789 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

libhttp/url.c in shellinabox through 2.20 has an implementation flaw in the HTTP request parsing logic. By sending a crafted multipart/form-data HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this to force shellinaboxd into an infinite loop, exhausting available CPU resources and taking the service down.

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