CVE-2014-8591 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8591?

CVE-2014-8591 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sap Netweaver, published on 4 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in SAP Internet Communication Manager (ICM), as used in SAP NetWeaver 7.02 and 7.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process termination) via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8591?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sap Netweaver.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8591?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-8591 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-2014-8591 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8591 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-36r8-hm9m-r3jc.