CVE-2018-12479 Request controller allows to create requests with arbitrary request IDs

What is CVE-2018-12479?

CVE-2018-12479 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in openSUSE Open Build Service, published on 9 Oct 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Open Build Service allows remote attackers to cause DoS by specifying crafted request IDs. Affected releases are openSUSE Open Build Service: versions prior to 01b015ca2a320afc4fae823465d1e72da8bd60df.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12479?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Opensuse Open Build Service.

How do I fix CVE-2018-12479?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2018-12479 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12479 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2014-0594 CSRF protection incorrectly disabled High 8.8
• CVE-2021-36777 login-proxy sends password to attacker-provided domain High 8.1
• CVE-2011-3178 openbuildservice webui code injection High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12479, GHSA-36p9-w333-jhg3, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12479.