CVE-2018-1000115

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server that can result in denial of service via network flood (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due to the disabling of the UDP protocol by default.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-1000115
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-03-05T14:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-08-04T17:15:35
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:memcached:memcached:1.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://twitter.com/dormando/status/968579781729009664 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes156 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/348 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/dbb7a8af90054bf4ef51f5814ef7ceb17d83d974 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://blogs.akamai.com/2018/03/memcached-fueled-13-tbps-attacks.html Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44264/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44265/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_07 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3588-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1627 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1593 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4218 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2331 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2140 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2857 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000115
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000115
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:58:27 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 02:58:59 2018-03-05T14:29Z 2018-03-05T14:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 02:58:59 2021-08-04T17:15:35 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 02:58:59 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated