NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability in GoAhead and Appweb

NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability in GoAhead and Appweb

CVE-2018-15505 · HIGH Severity

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

An issue was discovered in Embedthis GoAhead before 4.0.1 and Appweb before 7.0.2. An HTTP POST request with a specially crafted "Host" header field may cause a NULL pointer dereference and thus cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by the lack of a trailing ']' character in an IPv6 address.

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