A vulnerability was found in LimeSurvey 6.3.0-231016 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file /index.php of the component File Upload. The manipulation of the argument size with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-7887. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way. By approaching the search of inurl:index.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• 6.3.0-231016

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• open-source

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• Submit #387132: LimeSurvey v6.3.0-231016 Improper Input Validation (by jiashenghe)

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