What is CVE-2018-10868?

CVE-2018-10868 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Certification, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-05-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-10868?

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

XXE in Redhat Certification

CVE-2018-10868

redhat-certification 7 does not properly restrict the number of recursive definitions of entities in XML documents, allowing an unauthenticated user to run a "Billion Laugh Attack" by replying to XMLRPC methods when getting the status of an host.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.011 (62.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Redhat Certification — versions 7.0
N/a Redhat-certification — versions redhat-certification 7

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10868?: CVE-2018-10868 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Certification, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-05-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-10868?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.