CVE-2014-7813 Denial of service in n/a
Authenticated users can cause denial of service in Red Hat CloudForms by exhausting resources through symbol table manipulation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2014-7813?
CVE-2014-7813 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Oct 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Red Hat CloudForms 3 Management Engine (CFME) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via vectors involving calls to the .to_sym rails function and lack of garbage collection of inserted symbols.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-7813?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Redhat Cloudforms 3.0 Management Engine.
How do I fix CVE-2014-7813?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-7813 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-2014-7813 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-7813 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8g84-36xh-vrj9.