UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6389
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Summary:
Details: In WordPress through 4.9.2, unauthenticated attackers can cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by using the large list of registered .js files (from wp-includes/script-loader.php) to construct a series of requests to load every file many times.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6389, https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html, https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html, https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6389
Affected packages
Package
Name: wordpress
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/wordpress?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
4.3+dfsg-1
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
