01 Record
CVE-2017-5850
httpd in OpenBSD allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a series of requests for a large file using an HTTP Range header.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
httpd in OpenBSD allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a series of requests for a large file using an HTTP Range header.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 17.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-03-27 15:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 15:11Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-02-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 773f5fd6c732bdd265655d025a57002f7e196c901223f08304f38fc27323e0d9
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170202 Re: CVE requests: OpenBSD httpd - 2 DoShttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/6
- pierrekim.github.iohttps://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2017-02-07-openbsd-httpd-CVE-2017-5850.html
- www.securityfocus.com95997http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95997
- github.comhttps://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/142cfc82b932bc211218fbd7bdda8c7ce83f19df
- www.exploit-db.com41278https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41278/
- www.securitytracker.com1037758http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037758
- marc.info[openbsd-cvs] 20170131 cvs.openbsd.org: srchttp://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=148587359420912&w=2
- ftp.openbsd.orghttps://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.9/common/034_httpd.patch.sig
- ftp.openbsd.orghttps://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.0/common/017_httpd.patch.sig
- seclists.org20170206 Remote DoS against OpenBSD http server (up to 6.0)http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Feb/15
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140944/OpenBSD-HTTP-Server-6.0-Denial-Of-Service.html