CVE-2013-1946 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Drupal RESTWS module by sending crafted GET requests when page caching is enabled.
- 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-2013-1946?
CVE-2013-1946 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Apr 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The RESTful Web Services (RESTWS) module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.3 and 7.x-2.x before 7.x-2.0-alpha5 for Drupal, when page caching is enabled and anonymous users are assigned RESTWS permissions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a GET request with an HTTP Accept header set to a non-HTML type, which can "interfere with Drupal's page cache."
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1946?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Restful Web Services Project Restful Web Services.
How do I fix CVE-2013-1946?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1946 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-2013-1946 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1946 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vp7c-82j8-vfqp.