CVE-2018-25169 (GCVE-0-2018-25169)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-06 12:19
Modified
2026-03-09 19:04
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1188 - Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default
Summary
AMPPS 2.7 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the service by sending malformed data to the default HTTP port. Attackers can establish multiple socket connections and transmit invalid payloads to exhaust server resources and cause service unavailability.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Ampps AMPPS Version: 2.7
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