CVE-2018-7048 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-7048?

CVE-2018-7048 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Mar 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1. There is a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HTTP request.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-7048?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wowza Streaming Engine.

How do I fix CVE-2018-7048?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-7048 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-2018-7048 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7048 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2018-7047 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-52052 Stream Target Remote Code Execution in Wowza Streaming Engine Critical 9.4
• CVE-2018-19365 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2020-9004 Auth bypass in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2016-20034 Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Privilege Escalation via user edit High 8.7

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-hh29-2265-q6rh.