CVE-2019-3833

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

Openwsman, versions up to and including 2.6.9, are vulnerable to infinite loop in process_connection() when parsing specially crafted HTTP requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious HTTP request to cause denial of service to openwsman server.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 28, 29, 30
openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 42.3
Openwsman Project Openwsman: through 2.6.9

References

http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122623
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00065.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107367
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3833
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2V5HJ355RSKMFQ7GRJAHRZNDVXASF7TA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B2HEZ7D7GF3HDF36JLGYXIK5URR66DS4/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CXQP7UDPRZIZ4LM7FEJCTC2EDUYVOR2J/
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122623
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00065.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107367

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