PT-2021-8694 · Red Hat · Redhat-Certification

Riccardo Schirone · Published 2021-05-26 · Updated 2023-02-10 · CVE-2018-10868

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions redhat-certification version 7

Description The issue allows an unauthenticated user to perform a "Billion Laugh Attack" by replying to XMLRPC methods when getting the status of a host, due to the improper restriction of recursive definitions of entities in XML documents.

Recommendations For redhat-certification version 7, consider restricting or disabling the XMLRPC methods to minimize the risk of exploitation until a proper fix is available.

Fix

XML Entity Expansion

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-776

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-10868

Affected Products

Redhat-Certification

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10868 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-10868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593776 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/15107 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/44056 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/15573 · Telegram Post