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Description

Mongoose Web Server 6.9 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the service by establishing multiple socket connections. Attackers can repeatedly create connections to the default port and send malformed data to exhaust server resources and cause service unavailability.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-06 | Published 2026-03-06 | Updated 2026-03-06 | Assigner VulnCheck




HIGH: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

Product status

6.9
affected

Credits

Ihsan Sencan finder

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45819 (ExploitDB-45819) exploit

www.vulncheck.com/...denial-of-service-via-socket-connection (VulnCheck Advisory: Mongoose Web Server 6.9 Denial of Service via Socket Connection) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2018-25193)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2018-25193)

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