CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
74.8%
The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
christos_zoulas | file | * | cpe:2.3:a:christos_zoulas:file:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
php | php | * | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |