What is CVE-2018-14940?

CVE-2018-14940 is a high-severity vulnerability in Phpcms, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-08-05.

How severe is CVE-2018-14940?

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

Resource exhaustion in Phpcms

CVE-2018-14940

PHPCMS 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via large font_size, height, and width parameters in an api.php?op=checkcode request.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.013 (67.5th 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

Phpcms — versions 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-14940?: CVE-2018-14940 is a high-severity vulnerability in Phpcms, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-08-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-14940?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.