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CVE-2018-16844 (GCVE-0-2018-16844)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-11-07 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:32
VLAI
Summary
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Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105868 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042038 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
[UNKNOWN] nginx Affected: 1.15.6
Affected: 1.14.1
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Date Public
2018-11-06 00:00
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