Check Point Advisories

Memcached Denial of Service (CVE-2019-11596)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2019-0916
Date Published: 23 Jan 2020
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 24 April, 2023
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2019-11596
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75

Who is Vulnerable? Memcached prior to 1.5.14
Vulnerability Description A denial of service vulnerability exists in Memcached. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to create a denial of service condition on the affected system.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Memcached Denial of Service (CVE-2019-11596) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Memcached Denial of Service (CVE-2019-11596)

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