Medium severity · published Dec 3, 2018
CVE-2018-19792
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…
6.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Openlitespeed · Litespeedtech
through 1.4.41; 1.5.0; 1.5.0; 1.5.0; 1.5.0; 1.5.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19792
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19792
Exploit
https://github.com/litespeedtech/openlitespeed/issues/117
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