CVE-2025-32472
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe multiScan and picoScan are vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by conducting a Slowloris-type attack, causing the web page to become unresponsive.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThe multiScan and picoScan web interfaces are vulnerable to Slowloris-style denial-of-service attacks. Attackers exploit this by sending partial HTTP headers to keep connections open indefinitely, exhausting the server's connection pool and rendering the web interface unresponsive.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if multiScan or picoScan web interfaces are runningCheck for running web services by listing active processes or listening ports (e.g., ps aux | grep -i 'multiScan|picoScan', netstat -tlnp | grep http)Affected if multiScan or picoScan web services are exposed and accessible on network ports
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Verify connection timeout settings on the web serverInspect the web server configuration file (httpd.conf, nginx.conf, or equivalent) for 'Timeout', 'KeepAliveTimeout', or 'client_header_timeout' directives and their valuesAffected if No timeout is set or timeout values are excessively long (e.g., Timeout directive set to very high value or missing entirely)
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Check for rate limiting configurationReview the web server or application configuration for rate limiting rules (e.g., 'limit_req_zone' in nginx, 'RateLimit' in Apache, or application-level throttling)Affected if No rate limiting is configured on incoming connections to the web interface
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Inspect current connection pool statusUse commands like 'netstat -an | grep ESTABLISHED' or 'ss -tn' to observe established connections to the web service port; look for abnormally high numbers of idle/persistent connectionsAffected if The server shows a high number of half-open or idle connections approaching the connection limit
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Review reverse proxy or WAF presenceCheck if a reverse proxy (nginx, Apache mod_proxy) or WAF sits in front of the multiScan/picoScan services and inspect its configuration for Slowloris mitigationAffected if No reverse proxy or WAF is deployed, or the existing proxy lacks Slowloris-specific protections
You are affected if multiScan or picoScan web interfaces are exposed without proper connection timeouts, rate limiting, or protective proxy layers in place.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement connection timeout limits on the web server to drop incomplete requests, add rate limiting on incoming connections, and consider deploying a reverse proxy or WAF capable of detecting and blocking Slowloris attack patterns.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-32472 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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