CVE-2019-19240 Information

Description

Embedthis GoAhead before 5.0.1 mishandles redirected HTTP requests with a large Host header. The GoAhead WebsRedirect uses a static host buffer that has a limited length and can overflow. This can cause a copy of the Host header to fail leaving that buffer uninitialized which may leak uninitialized data in a response.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://github.com/embedthis/goahead/issues/289 https://github.com/embedthis/goahead/issues/290 https://github.com/embedthis/goahead/releases/tag/v5.0.1

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.3