CVE-2018-19792 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2018-19792?

CVE-2018-19792 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Dec 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The server in LiteSpeed OpenLiteSpeed before 1.5.0 RC6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by creating a symlink through which the openlitespeed program can be invoked with a long command name (involving ../ characters), which is mishandled in the LshttpdMain::getServerRootFromExecutablePath function.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-19792?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Litespeedtech Openlitespeed.

How do I fix CVE-2018-19792?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-19792 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-19792 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-19792 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2020-5519 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-0073 Authenticated Remote Code Execution in OpenLiteSpeed Web Server High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0074 Privilege Escalation in OpenLiteSpeed Web Server High 8.8
• CVE-2021-26758 Privilege escalation in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2023-40518 Other in n/a High 7.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-8jp3-8rhj-499h.