THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-8005
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2018-8005

Traffic Server vulnerability

CVSS
5.3
EPSS
6.9%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
When there are multiple ranges in a range request, Apache Traffic Server (ATS) will read the entire object from cache. This can cause performance problems with large objects in cache. This affects versions 6.0.0 to 6.2.2 and 7.0.0 to 7.1.3. To resolve this issue users running 6.x users should upgrade to 6.2.3 or later versions and 7.x users should upgrade to 7.1.4 or later versions.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Traffic Server
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/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
2018-08-29

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 6.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-8005

  • Confirm whether Apache Traffic Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-8005.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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