VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0747

medium
Published 2016-02-15 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not properly limit CNAME resolution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process resource consumption) via vectors related to arbitrary name resolution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 8 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.9.10-1
sid Fixed 1.9.10-1
forky Fixed 1.9.10-1
bullseye Fixed 1.9.10-1
bookworm Fixed 1.9.10-1
9.0 Affected —
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5nginx{"startIncluding":"0.6.18","endExcluding":"1.8.1"}1.8.1
macos applexcode{"endExcluding":"13.0"}13.0
nginx nginxnginx{"startIncluding":"0.6.18","endExcluding":"1.8.1"}1.8.1
nginx nginxnginx{"startIncluding":"1.9.0","endExcluding":"1.9.10"}1.9.10

References

CWEs

CWE-400

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.