CVE-2017-15300 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service in EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner by opening TCP connections to the HTTP API without sending requests, blocking legitimate access to mining statistics.
- 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-2017-15300?
CVE-2017-15300 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 15 Oct 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The miner statistics HTTP API in EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner Version 0.3.4b hangs on incoming TCP connections until some sort of request is made (such as "GET / HTTP/1.1"), which allows for a Denial of Service attack preventing a user from viewing their mining statistics by an attacker opening a session with telnet or netcat and connecting to the miner on the HTTP API port.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15300?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ewbf Cuda Zcash Miner.
How do I fix CVE-2017-15300?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-15300 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-2017-15300 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15300 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q55x-gmhm-qcpf.