CVE-2009-5024

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-05-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

ViewVC before 1.1.11 allows remote attackers to bypass the cvsdb row_limit configuration setting, and consequently conduct resource-consumption attacks, via the limit parameter, as demonstrated by a "query revision history" request.

Affected products

viewvc: through 1.1.10; 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4 (+22)

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/19/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/19/9
http://viewvc.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=433
http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/%2Acheckout%2A/viewvc/tags/1.1.11/CHANGES
http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc/trunk/lib/cvsdb.py?diff_format=u&view=log#rev2547
http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc/trunk/lib/viewvc.py?diff_format=u&r1=2547&r2=2546&pathrev=2547
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2563
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47928
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/19/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/19/9
http://viewvc.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=433
http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/%2Acheckout%2A/viewvc/tags/1.1.11/CHANGES

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