CVE-2016-1929 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in SAP HANA by spoofing log entries via crafted HTTP requests, leading to disk consumption and crashes.
- 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-2016-1929?
CVE-2016-1929 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The XS engine in SAP HANA allows remote attackers to spoof log entries in trace files and consequently cause a denial of service (disk consumption and process crash) via a crafted HTTP request, related to an unspecified debug function, aka SAP Security Note 2241978.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1929?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sap Hana.
How do I fix CVE-2016-1929?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-1929 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-2016-1929 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1929 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x3vj-mjq2-xm62.