LiteCart before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via URIs that do not exist, because public_h

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• litecart litecartbefore 2.1.2

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2018-12256admin/vqmods.app/vqmods.inc.php in LiteCart before 2.1.3 allows remote authenticated attackers to upload a malicious file (resulting in remo
  36Monitor
• CVE-2020-9017LiteCart through 2.2.1 allows CSV injection via a customer's profile.
  32Monitor
• CVE-2022-27168Cross-site scripting vulnerability in LiteCart versions prior to 2.4.2 allows a remote attacker to inject an arbitrary script via unspecifie
  24Monitor
• CVE-2020-9018LiteCart through 2.2.1 allows admin/?app=users&doc=edit_user CSRF to add a user.
  21Monitor
• CVE-2014-7183Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the search.php in LiteCart 1.1.2.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbit
  18Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1function expand(node) {2  return node.children.map(expand);3}

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;2function expand(node, depth = 0) {3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.