7.5

CVE-2018-6532: icinga Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-6532DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6532
Published 27-02-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-6532 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in icinga. EPSS estimates a 1.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.36%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 27-02-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. By sending specially crafted (authenticated and unauthenticated) requests, an attacker can exhaust a lot of memory on the server side, triggering the OOM killer.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.36%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

71%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.36% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
1.36%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • icinga2< 2.8.4-1
Icinga1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • icingaAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

4 links