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CVE-2018-6343

Proxygen fails to validate that a secondary auth manager is set before dereferencing it. That can cause a denial of serv

Proxygen fails to validate that a secondary auth manager is set before dereferencing it. That can cause a denial of service issue when parsing a Certificate/CertificateRequest HTTP2 Frame over a fizz (TLS 1.3) transport. This issue affects Proxygen releases starting from v2018.10.29.00 until the fix in v2018.11.19.00.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.00271
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  • SSVC automatable: yes - attacks can be scripted at scale
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-20Improper Input Validation
CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference
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Affected Products & Versions

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facebook proxygen>= 2018.10.29.00 and < 2018.11.19.00
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Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · cve-assign@fb.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD31 Dec 2018 · 10:29 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/commit/0600ebe59c3e82cd012def77ca9ca1918da74a71PatchThird Party Advisory
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