7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.5 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.665 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.9%
Openfire is prone to a security bypass vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900401");
script_version("2023-06-27T05:05:30+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-6508");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-06-27 05:05:30 +0000 (Tue, 27 Jun 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-12-02 11:52:55 +0100 (Tue, 02 Dec 2008)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_name("Openfire 'AuthCheck Filter' Security Bypass Vulnerability");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/32478/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32189");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.andreas-kurtz.de/advisories/AKADV2008-001-v1.0.txt");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will cause execution of arbitrary code.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Ignite Realtime Openfire version prior to 3.6.1.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This vulnerability is due to error in the 'AuthCheck' filter while
imposing access restrictions via a specially crafted URL using 'setup/setup-' and followed by the
directory traversal sequences. These can be exploited to cause underlying database, access or modify data.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.6.1 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Openfire is prone to a security bypass vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"deprecated", value:TRUE);
exit(0);
}
exit(66);