High severity · published Feb 27, 2018
CVE-2018-6532
An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1
7.5
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. By sending specially crafted (authenticated and unauthenticated) requests, an attacker can exhaust a lot of memory on the server side, triggering the OOM killer.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 72% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IC
Icinga · Icinga
2.0.0 through 2.8.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6532
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6532
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/pull/6103
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