CVE-2014-5336

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Monkey HTTP Server before 1.5.3, when the File Descriptor Table (FDT) is enabled and custom error messages are set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via an HTTP request that triggers an error message.

Affected products

monkey: through 1.5.2; 0.1.1, 0.1.4, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.6.0 (+49)

References

http://monkey-project.com/Announcements/v1.5.3
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/397
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/412
http://secunia.com/advisories/60783
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69279
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95336
https://github.com/monkey/monkey/commit/b2d0e6f92310bb14a15aa2f8e96e1fb5379776dd
http://monkey-project.com/Announcements/v1.5.3
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/397
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/412
http://secunia.com/advisories/60783
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69279

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