CVE-2016-0747

Nginx vulnerability

CVSS

5.3

EPSS

8.4%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not properly limit CNAME resolution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process resource consumption) via vectors related to arbitrary name resolution.

Affected vendor

Affected product

Nginx

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Published

2016-02-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-0747

Confirm whether F5 Nginx is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-0747.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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