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Nextcloud · Report #145409

help.nextcloud.com: Known DoS condition (null pointer deref) in Nginx running

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27 Jul 2016disclosed

How it was found

The https://help.nextcloud.com sub-site is running Nginx/1.10.0 which is vuln to a known issue (CVE-2016-4450) which allows a remote malformed HTTP request to cause the Nginx process to crash.

DoS testing is mentioned as not requested, but if you know of an issue give it a go ..

You can determine the version running by requesting the IP of the site and getting the HTTP 301, eg: https://88.198.160.135

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-4450

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