article2pdf <= 0.27 - Denial of Service

2019-03-29 00:00

Christian Lerrahn

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected Pluginarticle2pdf

Affected Version0.24 – 0.27 · 4 branches

CVSS7.5High

CVECVE-2019-1000031

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Vulnerability Overview

A disk space or quota exhaustion issue exists in article2pdf_getfile.php in the article2pdf Wordpress plugin 0.24, 0.25, 0.26, 0.27. Visiting PDF generation link but not following the redirect will leave behind a PDF file on disk which will never be deleted by the plug-in.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-1000031 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/09fc8d80-8231-4183-9626-c90f4fee5eb4

CVSS Vector

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityHigh

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