CVE-2008-1855 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the McAfee Common Management Agent service by sending a long invalid method in a specific HTTP request.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-1855?
CVE-2008-1855 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Apr 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
FrameworkService.exe in McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) 3.6.0.574 Patch 3 and earlier, as used by ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) and ProtectionPilot (PrP), allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service (CMA Framework service crash) via a long invalid method in requests for the /spin//AVClient//AVClient.csp URI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5274.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1855?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mcafee Cma.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1855?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1855 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2008-1855 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-1855 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j55f-jpf8-gg6v.