bogofilter up to 0.92.7 denial of service

CVSS Meta Temp Score
CVSS is a standardized scoring system to determine possibilities of attacks. The Temp Score considers temporal factors like disclosure, exploit and countermeasures. The unique Meta Score calculates the average score of different sources to provide a normalized scoring system.
Current Exploit Price (≈)
Our analysts are monitoring exploit markets and are in contact with vulnerability brokers. The range indicates the observed or calculated exploit price to be seen on exploit markets. A good indicator to understand the monetary effort required for and the popularity of an attack.
CTI Interest Score
Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks. The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.
5.3$0-$5k0.00

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in bogofilter up to 0.92.7. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

The quoted-printable decoder in bogofilter 0.17.4 to 0.92.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via mail headers that cause a line feed (LF) to be replaced by a null byte that is written to an incorrect memory address.

The bug was discovered 11/01/2004. The weakness was shared 03/01/2005 by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho (Website). The advisory is shared for download at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability was named CVE-2004-1007 since 11/03/2004. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 120 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 15799 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17916) and Tenable (15799). The entries VDB-53964 and VDB-63194 are related to this item.

Productinfo

Name

Version

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB CVSS-B Score: 🔍
VulDB CVSS-BT Score: 🔍
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

AVACAuCIA
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
VectorComplexityAuthenticationConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
unlockunlockunlockunlockunlockunlock
unlockunlockunlockunlockunlockunlock
unlockunlockunlockunlockunlockunlock

VulDB Base Score: 🔍
VulDB Temp Score: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 🔍

Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

EPSS Score: 🔍
EPSS Percentile: 🔍

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔍

0-Dayunlockunlockunlockunlock
Todayunlockunlockunlockunlock

Nessus ID: 15799
Nessus File: 🔍
Nessus Risk: 🔍

OpenVAS ID: 52321
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: bogofilter, bogofilter-qdbm, bogofilter-tdb, ru-bogofilter
OpenVAS File: 🔍
OpenVAS Family: 🔍

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Timelineinfo

11/01/2004 🔍
11/01/2004 +0 days 🔍
11/01/2004 +0 days 🔍
11/03/2004 +2 days 🔍
03/01/2005 +118 days 🔍
03/01/2005 +0 days 🔍
06/01/2005 +92 days 🔍
03/10/2015 +3569 days 🔍
07/01/2021 +2305 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Researcher: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2004-1007 (🔍)
X-Force: 17916
Vulnerability Center: 8198 - Bogofilter Email Filter 0.9.0.3 - 0.92.7 via The Quoted-Printable Decoder, Medium
SecurityFocus: 11568 - Bogofilter EMail Filter Remote Quoted Printable Decoder Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 13035
OSVDB: 11296 - CVE-2004-1007 - bogofilter - Denial-Of-Service Issue

See also: 🔍

Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 15:27
Updated: 07/01/2021 13:34
Changes: 03/10/2015 15:27 (60), 06/05/2019 18:27 (8), 07/01/2021 13:34 (3)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 18:63C:103

Discussion

No comments yet. Languages: en.

Please log in to comment.

◂ PreviousOverviewNext ▸

Do you want to use VulDB in your project?

Use the official API to access entries easily!