CVE-2014-9708
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Embedthis Appweb before 4.6.6 and 5.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a Range header with an empty value, as demonstrated by "Range: x=,".
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| oracle | enterprise_communications_broker | {"endIncluding":"2.0.0"} | |
| embedthis | appweb | {"endExcluding":"4.6.6"} | 4.6.6 |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131157/Appweb-Web-Server-Denial-Of-Service.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/19
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/158
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/06/2
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535028/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/535028/100/1400/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73407
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037007
- https://github.com/embedthis/appweb/commit/7e6a925f5e86a19a7934a94bbd6959101d0b84eb#diff-7ca4d62c70220e0e226e7beac90c95d9L17348
- https://github.com/embedthis/appweb/issues/413
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2014-9708
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/2021-07-Security-Bulletin-Junos-OS-Multiple-J-Web-vulnerabilities-resolved?language=en_US
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131157/Appweb-Web-Server-Denial-Of-Service.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/19
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/158
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/06/2
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535028/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/535028/100/1400/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73407
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037007
- https://github.com/embedthis/appweb/commit/7e6a925f5e86a19a7934a94bbd6959101d0b84eb#diff-7ca4d62c70220e0e226e7beac90c95d9L17348
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.