CVE-2018-20014 — In UrBackup 2

In UrBackup 2.2.6, an attacker can send a malformed request to the client over the network, and trigger a fileservplugin/CClientThread.cpp CClientThread::GetFileHashAndMetadata NULL pointer dereference, leading to shutting down the client application.

01What is this vulnerability?

In UrBackup 2.2.6, an attacker can send a malformed request to the client over the network, and trigger a fileservplugin/CClientThread.cpp CClientThread::GetFileHashAndMetadata NULL pointer dereference, leading to shutting down the client application.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-06-07T15:57:43.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:51:18.230Z

09References

• www.urbackup.org — http://www.urbackup.org/client_changelog.html
• github.com — https://github.com/MostafaSoliman/Security-Advisories/blob/master/CVE-2018-20014