CVE-2022-41556
Lighttpd Resource Leak Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Oct. 6, 2022, 6:17 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 7:23 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
3.6
Exploitability Score :
3.9
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CVE-2022-41556 vulnerability over time.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/commit/b18de6f9264f914f7bf493abd3b6059343548e50 Added Reference https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/compare/lighttpd-1.4.66...lighttpd-1.4.67 Added Reference https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/pull/115 Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OVOSBSCMLGCHH2Z74H64ZWVDFJFQTBC2/ Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-12 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 07, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OVOSBSCMLGCHH2Z74H64ZWVDFJFQTBC2/ [No types assigned] Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OVOSBSCMLGCHH2Z74H64ZWVDFJFQTBC2/ -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Dec. 03, 2022
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OVOSBSCMLGCHH2Z74H64ZWVDFJFQTBC2/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OVOSBSCMLGCHH2Z74H64ZWVDFJFQTBC2/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-12 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-12 Third Party Advisory Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 31, 2022
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-12 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OVOSBSCMLGCHH2Z74H64ZWVDFJFQTBC2/ [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Oct. 07, 2022
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Changed Reference Type https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/commit/b18de6f9264f914f7bf493abd3b6059343548e50 No Types Assigned https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/commit/b18de6f9264f914f7bf493abd3b6059343548e50 Patch, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/compare/lighttpd-1.4.66...lighttpd-1.4.67 No Types Assigned https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/compare/lighttpd-1.4.66...lighttpd-1.4.67 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/pull/115 No Types Assigned https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/pull/115 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory Added CWE NIST CWE-401 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 1.4.56 up to (excluding) 1.4.67
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2022-41556 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2022-41556
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.20 }} -0.04%
score
0.57884
percentile