Vulnerability Instance
Lookup for vulnerabilities affecting packages.
GET /api/vulnerabilities/16407?format=api
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properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly." } ], "exploits": [ { "date_added": null, "description": "This module uses a denial-of-service (DoS) condition appearing in a variety of\n programming languages. This vulnerability occurs when storing multiple values\n in a hash table and all values have the same hash value. This can cause a web server\n parsing the POST parameters issued with a request into a hash table to consume\n hours of CPU with a single HTTP request.\n\n Currently, only the hash functions for PHP and Java are implemented.\n This module was tested with PHP + httpd, Tomcat, Glassfish and Geronimo.\n It also generates a random payload to bypass some IDS signatures.", "required_action": null, "due_date": null, "notes": "Stability:\n - crash-service-down\nSideEffects: []\nReliability: []\n", "known_ransomware_campaign_use": false, "source_date_published": "2011-12-28", "exploit_type": null, "platform": "", "source_date_updated": null, "data_source": "Metasploit", "source_url": "https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/tree/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/http/hashcollision_dos.rb" }, { "date_added": "2006-07-14", "description": "MyBulletinBoard (MyBB) 1.1.5 - 'CLIENT-IP' SQL Injection", "required_action": null, "due_date": null, "notes": null, "known_ransomware_campaign_use": true, "source_date_published": "2006-07-15", "exploit_type": "webapps", "platform": "php", "source_date_updated": "2016-11-09", "data_source": "Exploit-DB", "source_url": "" } ], "severity_range_score": "4.0 - 6.9", "exploitability": "0.5", "weighted_severity": "0.7", "risk_score": 0.3, "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-zus9-yf6s-vfb1" }