Denial of Service (DoS) in WeGIA due to Recursive Crawling of Dynamic URLs
Summary
Denial of Service (DoS) in WeGIA due to Recursive Crawling of Dynamic URLs
Original description
The description as published by the source.
WeGIA is an open source Web Manager for Institutions with a focus on Portuguese language users. A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in WeGIA. This vulnerability allows any unauthenticated user to cause the server to become unresponsive by performing aggressive spidering. The vulnerability is caused by recursive crawling of dynamically generated URLs and insufficient handling of large volumes of requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.16.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- patch github.com