CVE-2018-1000115Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 88.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server that can result in denial of service via network flood (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due to the disabling of the UDP protocol by default.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- Memcached Stats Amplification Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/memcached/memcached_ampRank normaldisclosed 27 Feb 2018
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Memcached 1.5.5 - 'Memcrashed ' Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume Denial of Service With Shodan API (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44265dos, linuxpublished 8 Mar 2018Not verified
- Memcached 1.5.5 - 'Memcrashed' Insufficient Control Network Message Volume Denial of Service (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44264dos, linuxpublished 5 Mar 2018Not verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 44264 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 44265 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 88.0% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References15
- RHBA-2018:2140 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1593 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-3588-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes156 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 44264 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://twitter.com/dormando/status/968579781729009664 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 44265 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/dbb7a8af90054bf4ef51f5814ef7ceb17d83d974 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2857 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1627 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2331 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4218 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://blogs.akamai.com/2018/03/memcached-fueled-13-tbps-attacks.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/348 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_07 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-1842 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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