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1 vulnerability by Ampps

CVE-2018-25169 (GCVE-0-2018-25169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-06 12:19 – Updated: 2026-03-09 19:04
VLAI?
Title
AMPPS 2.7 Denial of Service via Malformed Socket Connection
Summary
AMPPS 2.7 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the service by sending malformed data to the default HTTP port. Attackers can establish multiple socket connections and transmit invalid payloads to exhaust server resources and cause service unavailability.
CWE
  • CWE-1188 - Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Ampps AMPPS Affected: 2.7
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Date Public ?
2018-11-12 12:00
Credits
Ihsan Sencan
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