CVE-2021-45848 — Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in Nicotine

CWE-116 — Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Nicotine-plus NicotineFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedMar 15
Latest updateMar 16

Description

Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Nicotine+ 3.0.3 and later allows a user with a modified Soulseek client to crash Nicotine+ by sending a file download request with a file path containing a null character.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDnicotine-plus/nicotine3.0.3 — 3.2.1

Also affects: Fedora 34

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
Nicotine+ DoS on Null Character in Download Request↗2022-03-16
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OSV
Nicotine+ DoS on Null Character in Download Request↗2022-03-16
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CVE-2021-45848 — Nicotine-plus Nicotine vulnerability | cvebase