CVE-2017-14993

Description

OXID eShop Community Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance), and 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy), Enterprise Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 5.2.x before 5.2.11 (legacy), and 5.3.x before 5.3.6 (maintenance), and Professional Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy) and 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance) allow remote attackers to crawl specially crafted URLs (aka "forced browsing") in order to overflow the database of the shop and consequently make it stop working. Prerequisite: the shop allows rendering empty categories to the storefront via an admin option.

References

Link	Tags
https://bugs.oxid-esales.com/view.php?id=6678	vendor advisory
https://oxidforge.org/en/security-bulletin-2017-002.html	patch vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2017-14993?: CVE-2017-14993 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2017-14993?: To fix CVE-2017-14993, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2017-14993 being actively exploited in the wild?: As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2017-14993 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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Description

Category

CWE-425 – Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')

References

Frequently Asked Questions