Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-03-12 CWE: CWE-835 Bugzilla: 1674478: CVE-2019-3833 openwsman: Infinite loop in process_connection() allows denial of service Openwsman, versions up to and including 2.6.9, are vulnerable to infinite loop in process_connection() when parsing specially crafted HTTP requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious HTTP request to cause denial of service to openwsman server.
Find out more about CVE-2019-3833 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform currently only utilizes the client and python client API bindings, not the server components of openwsman. Additionally, updates for this package are received through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux repository.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization uses only the openwsman-python client API bindings, not the server components of openwsman.
This issue affects the versions of openwsman as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | redhat-virtualization-host | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | openwsman | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | openwsman | Will not fix |
| OpenStack 9.0 Director for RHEL 7 | openwsman | Will not fix |
| OpenStack 8.0 Director for RHEL 7 | openwsman | Will not fix |
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