Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-45918 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in NHI Health Insurance web Service Component

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
nhi
CWE-1284

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Nhi
1