Cross-Origin Resource Consumption Vulnerability in admin-cli

CVE-2016-8627 · MEDIUM Severity

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

admin-cli before versions 3.0.0.alpha25, 2.2.1.cr2 is vulnerable to an EAP feature to download server log files that allows logs to be available via GET requests making them vulnerable to cross-origin attacks. An attacker could trigger the user's browser to request the log files consuming enough resources that normal server functioning could be impaired.

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