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CVE-2018-1000115 Detail

Description

Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server that can result in denial of service via network flood (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due to the disabling of the UDP protocol by default.


Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  7.5 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H


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Hyperlink Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2140 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1593 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1627 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2331 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2857 Third Party Advisory 
https://blogs.akamai.com/2018/03/memcached-fueled-13-tbps-attacks.html Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/dbb7a8af90054bf4ef51f5814ef7ceb17d83d974 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/348 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes156 Third Party Advisory 
https://twitter.com/dormando/status/968579781729009664 Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3588-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4218 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44264/ Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44265/ Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_07 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-1000115
NVD Published Date:
03/05/2018
NVD Last Modified:
08/04/2021
Source:
MITRE