CVE-2019-17502

Published: Oct 12, 2019Modified: Jun 17, 2026

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

Hydra through 0.1.8 has a NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash when processing POST requests that lack a Content-Length header. read.c, request.c, and util.c contribute to this. The process_header_end() function calls boa_atoi(), which ultimately calls atoi() on a NULL pointer.

Affected (1)

Products: Hydra Project: Hydra

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Hydra Project Hydra	Up to 0.1.8

Related CWEs

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (4)

http://hydra.hellug.gr

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://gist.github.com/fxb6476/0b9883a88ff2ca40de46a8469834e16c

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitThird Party Advisory

http://hydra.hellug.gr

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party Advisory

https://gist.github.com/fxb6476/0b9883a88ff2ca40de46a8469834e16c

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

ExploitThird Party Advisory

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