CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It affects Nginx. Its EPSS score suggests a 82.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2016-0742
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
81.96%
Nginx
Original NVD Description
The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and worker process crash) via a crafted UDP DNS response.