CVE-2018-1000115

Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the…

published March 5, 2018

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High probability of exploitation

NVD has not assigned a CVSS score to this record. It sits in the 99.8th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS
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EPSS
88%
Percentile
99.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server that can result in denial of service via network flood (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due to the disabling of the UDP protocol by default.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.88114 · 99.8th percentile
Published
2018-03-05T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 MAR 14:00Z
    Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the…
    cvelistv5