Denial of service in NGINX Plus



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-39792
CWE-ID CWE-825
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 NGINX Plus
Server applications / Web servers

Vendor F5 Networks

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Expired pointer dereference

EUVDB-ID: #VU96037

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-39792

CWE-ID: CWE-825 - Expired pointer dereference

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to usage of an expired pointer dereference within the ngx_stream_mqtt_filter_module module. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the web server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

NGINX Plus: R30 P1 - R32

CPE2.3 External links

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000140108


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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