CVE-2018-1330

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

When parsing a malformed JSON payload, libprocess in Apache Mesos versions 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 might crash due to an uncaught exception. Parsing chunked HTTP requests with trailers can lead to a libprocess crash too because of the mistakenly planted assertion. A malicious actor can therefore cause a denial of service of Mesos masters rendering the Mesos-controlled cluster inoperable.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Mesos: from 1.4.0 before 1.4.2; from 1.5.0 before 1.5.1; 1.4.0-rc1, 1.4.0-rc2, 1.4.0-rc3, 1.4.0-rc4, 1.4.0-rc5, 1.6.0-rc1 — fixed in 1.4.2, 1.5.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Mesos 1.4.2, 1.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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