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CVE-2022-41556

HIGHEPSS 85th pctl
7.5
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

A resource leak in gw_backend.c in lighttpd 1.4.56 through 1.4.66 could lead to a denial of service (connection-slot exhaustion) after a large amount of anomalous TCP behavior by clients. It is related to RDHUP mishandling in certain HTTP/1.1 chunked situations. Use of mod_fastcgi is, for example, affected. This is fixed in 1.4.67.

How to fix

Remediation Available
lighttpdDebian
Fixed in:1.4.59-1+deb11u2CVE-2022-41556
Fixed in:1.4.67-1CVE-2022-41556
Fixed in:1.4.67-1CVE-2022-41556
Fixed in:1.4.67-1CVE-2022-41556
lighttpdUbuntu
Fixed in:1.4.55-1ubuntu1.20.04.2USN-5903-1
Fixed in:1.4.63-1ubuntu3.1USN-5903-1
Fixed in:1.4.65-2ubuntu1.1USN-5903-1

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CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

2.79%probability of exploitation in 30 days
85thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 85% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1
Third-Party Advisory2
Other references1

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