Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerability in nginx's ngx_http_proxy_module

Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerability in nginx's ngx_http_proxy_module

CVE-2013-2070 · MEDIUM Severity

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

http/modules/ngx_http_proxy_module.c in nginx 1.1.4 through 1.2.8 and 1.3.0 through 1.4.0, when proxy_pass is used with untrusted HTTP servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and obtain sensitive information from worker process memory via a crafted proxy response, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-2028.

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