CVE-2016-7835 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in H2O allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or obtain server certificate private keys and possibly other information.

Published: 2017-06-09

Score: 9.1 Critical

EPSS: 3.2% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Kazuho Oku

H2O

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`version 2.0.4 and earlier`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:dena:h2o::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:h2o_project:h2o:2.1.0:beta3::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-8684	Use-after-free vulnerability in H2O allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or obtain server certificate private keys and possibly other information.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03157.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95061
https://github.com/h2o/h2o/issues/1144
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN44566208/index.html

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Dena H2o

H2o Project H2o

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: jpcert

Published: 2017-06-09T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:04:56.138Z

Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-7835

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-06-09T16:29:01.220

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-7835

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-416

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