CVE-2016-2146

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The am_read_post_data function in mod_auth_mellon before 0.11.1 does not limit the amount of data read, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process crash, web server deadlock, or memory consumption) via a large amount of POST data.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
uninett mod_auth_mellon: through 0.11.0

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179085.html
https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/pull/71
https://sympa.uninett.no/lists/uninett.no/arc/modmellon/2016-03/msg00000.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179085.html
https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/pull/71
https://sympa.uninett.no/lists/uninett.no/arc/modmellon/2016-03/msg00000.html

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