What is CVE-2018-16949?

CVE-2018-16949 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openafs, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-09-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-16949?

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

Resource exhaustion in Openafs

CVE-2018-16949

An issue was discovered in OpenAFS before 1.6.23 and 1.8.x before 1.8.2. Several data types used as RPC input variables were implemented as unbounded array types, limited only by the inherent 32-bit length field to 4 GB. An unauthenticated…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.031 (86.0th 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

Openafs
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0, 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16949?: CVE-2018-16949 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openafs, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-09-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-16949?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.