CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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5.2 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in fhttpd 0.4.2 (Web Server). Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Authorization. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
fhttpd 0.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an Authorization HTTP header with an invalid character after the Basic value.
The weakness was published 08/19/2009 by Jeremy Brown with Brown (Website). The advisory is shared for download at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-7014 since 08/18/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.
A public exploit has been developed by Jeremy Brown in Perl and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 334 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.
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 (45278) and Exploit-DB (6493).
Product
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.2
VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.2
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Denial of serviceCWE: CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Functional
Author: Jeremy Brown
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
09/19/2008 🔍09/19/2008 🔍
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11/21/2018 🔍
Sources
Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔Researcher: Jeremy Brown
Organization: Brown
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2008-7014 (🔍)
X-Force: 45278 - fhttpd program Basic denial of service
SecurityFocus: 31265 - fhttpd Basic Authorization Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
Entry
Created: 03/18/2015 15:15Updated: 11/21/2018 04:53
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (59), 11/21/2018 04:53 (5)
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