CVE-2018-8040 - Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Pages that are rendered using the ESI plugin can have access to the cookie header when the plugin is configured not to allow access. This affects Apache Traffic Server (ATS) versions 6.0.0 to 6.2.2 and 7.0.0 to 7.1.3. To resolve this issue users running 6.x should upgrade to 6.2.3 or later versions and 7.x users should upgrade to 7.1.4 or later versions.

Pages that are rendered using the ESI plugin can have access to the cookie header when the plugin is configured not to allow access. This affects Apache Traffic Server (ATS) versions 6.0.0 to 6.2.2 and 7.0.0 to 7.1.3. To resolve this issue users running 6.x should upgrade to 6.2.3 or later versions and 7.x users should upgrade to 7.1.4 or later versions.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-08-29 13:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 9.0

9.0

References

105181

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/3926

Patch, Third Party Advisory

[trafficserver-users] 20180828 Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Traffic Server vulnerability with header variable access in the ESI plugin - CVE-2018-8040

Mailing List, Vendor Advisory

[trafficserver-users] 20180828 [ANNOUNCE] Apache Traffic Server vulnerability with header variable access in the ESI plugin - CVE-2018-8040

Mailing List, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory

DSA-4282

Third Party Advisory

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