Rit Research Labs TinyWeb 1.9 GET Request /cgi-bin resource consumption
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A vulnerability was found in Rit Research Labs TinyWeb 1.9. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code of the file /cgi-bin of the component GET Request Handler. The manipulation with the input value .%00.
leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:
TinyWeb 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a ".%00." in an HTTP GET request to the cgi-bin directory.
The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2003 by Ziv Kamir (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-1510 since 10/25/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known.
A public exploit has been developed in Perl. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11894 (TinyWeb cgi-bin Crafted HTTP GET Request DoS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Web Servers and running in the context r.
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (13402) and Tenable (11894).
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Class: Resource consumptionCWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499
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Nessus ID: 11894
Nessus Name: TinyWeb cgi-bin Crafted HTTP GET Request DoS
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OpenVAS ID: 11894
OpenVAS Name: TinyWeb 1.9
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Sources
Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔Researcher: Ziv Kamir
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2003-1510 (🔍)
X-Force: 13402
SecurityFocus: 8810 - Rit Research Labs TinyWeb Server Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
Entry
Created: 09/26/2014 17:22Updated: 04/22/2019 21:51
Changes: 09/26/2014 17:22 (68), 04/22/2019 21:51 (2)
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