CVE-2018-8005 Denial of service in Apache Traffic Server
Attackers can cause performance degradation or denial of service by sending multiple range requests for large cached objects in Apache Traffic Server.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-8005?
CVE-2018-8005 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Traffic Server, published on 29 Aug 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
When there are multiple ranges in a range request, Apache Traffic Server (ATS) will read the entire object from cache. This can cause performance problems with large objects in cache. This affects versions 6.0.0 to 6.2.2 and 7.0.0 to 7.1.3. To resolve this issue users running 6.x users should upgrade to 6.2.3 or later versions and 7.x users should upgrade to 7.1.4 or later versions.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-8005?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Apache Traffic Server, Debian Debian Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2018-8005?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2018-8005 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-8005 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Traffic Server
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8005, GHSA-98hg-h5w7-368p, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8005.