What is CVE-2017-14993?

CVE-2017-14993 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oxid-Esales Eshop, classified under Direct Request (Forced Browsing). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-02-20.

How severe is CVE-2017-14993?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Oxid-Esales Eshop

CVE-2017-14993

OXID eShop Community Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance), and 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy), Enterprise Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 5.2.x before 5.2.11 (legacy), and 5.3.x before 5.3.6 (maintenance), and Professional Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy) and 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance) allow remote attackers to crawl specially crafted URLs (aka "forced browsing") in order to overflow the database of the shop and consequently make it stop working. Prerequisite: the shop allows rendering empty categories to the storefront via an admin option.

EPSS: 0.012 (65.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 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.

Affected products

Oxid-esales Eshop — versions 6.0.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-425 — Direct Request (Forced Browsing)

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14993?: CVE-2017-14993 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oxid-Esales Eshop, classified under Direct Request (Forced Browsing). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-02-20.
How severe is CVE-2017-14993?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.