MediumVulnerability
CVE-2018-16848: OpenStack Mistral denial of service via crafted workflow YAML
- Source
- NVD(opens in a new tab)
- Identifier
- CVE-2018-16848
- Published
- Record updated
- Affected
- mistral < 10.0.0
- Fixed in
- 10.0.0
- released May 13, 2020, 33 days before disclosure
- Known exploitation
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog at the last check.
- EPSS
- 1.2%
Summary
CVE-2018-16848 is a Denial of Service condition in OpenStack Mistral, affecting versions up to and including 7.0.3. Submitting a specially crafted workflow definition YAML file containing nested anchors leads to resource exhaustion and a denial of service. The weakness is classified as CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption).
Mitigation
The source does not state a fix yet. Check the original advisory for updates.
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