CVE-2019-18601 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-18601?

CVE-2019-18601 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenAFS before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5 is prone to denial of service from unserialized data access because remote attackers can make a series of VOTE_Debug RPC calls to crash a database server within the SVOTE_Debug RPC handler.

Weakness: CWE-502

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-18601?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Openafs Openafs.

How do I fix CVE-2019-18601?

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-2019-18601 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-18601 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18601, GHSA-m28x-w8m6-pc3f, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18601.