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Use After Free

CVE-2018-19878

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered on Teltonika RTU950 R_31.04.89 devices. The application allows a user to login without limitation. For every successful login request, the application saves a session. A user can re-login without logging out, causing the application to store the session in memory. Exploitation of this vulnerability will increase memory use and consume free space.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published