CVE-2018-6343 (GCVE-0-2018-6343)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-31 22:00 – Updated: 2025-05-06 16:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Proxygen fails to validate that a secondary auth manager is set before dereferencing it. That can cause a denial of service issue when parsing a Certificate/CertificateRequest HTTP2 Frame over a fizz (TLS 1.3) transport. This issue affects Proxygen releases starting from v2018.10.29.00 until the fix in v2018.11.19.00.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-06 16:05 UTC
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/commit/0600e… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
Date Public
2018-12-31 00:00
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