Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-37797 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products

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
lighttpd
debian
CWE-476

Summary

In lighttpd 1.4.65, mod_wstunnel does not initialize a handler function pointer if an invalid HTTP request (websocket handshake) is received. It leads to null pointer dereference which crashes the server. It could be used by an external attacker to cause denial of service condition.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Lighttpd
1
OS
Debian
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)