CVE-2021-45918
NHI’s health insurance web service component – Heap-based Buffer Overflow
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- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
NHI’s health insurance web service component has insufficient validation for input string length, which can result in heap-based buffer overflow attack. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to flood the memory space reserved for the program, in order to terminate service without authentication, which requires a system restart to recover service.
Timeline
- CVE published
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Affected versions
- NHI health insurance web service component
Version range not reported
- NHI health insurance web service component
Version range not reported
- NHI health insurance web service component
Version range not reported
- NHI health insurance web service component
Version range not reported