CVE-2016-15024 doomsider shadow denial of service
A local attacker can cause a denial of service in the shadow password suite, requiring high complexity and permissions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-15024?
CVE-2016-15024 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in doomsider shadow, published on 19 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability was found in doomsider shadow. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to denial of service. Attacking locally is a requirement. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Continious delivery with rolling releases is used by this product. Therefore, no version details of affected nor updated releases are available. The patch is identified as 3332c5ba9ec3014ddc74e2147190a050eee97bc0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-221478 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.
Weakness: CWE-404
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-15024?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Doomsider Shadow Project Doomsider Shadow.
How do I fix CVE-2016-15024?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-15024 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-2016-15024 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-15024 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p65g-hv37-ghrh.