CVE-2017-18353

Public Exploit

Description

Rendertron 1.0.0 includes an _ah/stop route to shutdown the Chrome instance responsible for serving render requests to all users. Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application.

7.5

CVSS

Severity: High

CVSS 3.0 •

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 0.45%

Vendor Advisory chromium.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=759111	vendor advisory issue tracking exploit
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron/commit/8d70628c96ae72eff6eebb451d26fc9ed6b58b0e	patch
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron/pull/88	third party advisory patch

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2017-18353?: CVE-2017-18353 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2017-18353?: To fix CVE-2017-18353, 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-2017-18353 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2017-18353 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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