PT-2018-17775 · Duckduckgo · Duckduckgo

Brendan Coles + 1 · Published 2018-04-01 · Updated 2018-05-15 · CVE-2018-6849

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions DuckDuckGo version 4.2.0

Description The issue concerns the WebRTC component, which can disclose a private IP address in a STUN request after visiting a website that attempts to gather complete client information, such as https://ip.voidsec.com.

Recommendations For DuckDuckGo version 4.2.0, consider disabling WebRTC as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6849

Affected Products

Duckduckgo

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/gather/browser_lanipleak.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/44403 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6849 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6849 · Security Note
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/9538 · Note
• https://voidsec.com/vpn-leak · Note
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16699270 · Note
• https://datarift.blogspot.com/p/private-ip-leakage-using-webrtc.html · Note