WEKA INTEREST Security Scanner up to 1.8 Webspider denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in WEKA INTEREST Security Scanner up to 1.8. This affects an unknown part of the component Webspider. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-20014. Local access is required to approach this attack. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is recommended to use an alternative to replace the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in WEKA INTEREST Security Scanner up to 1.8 (Security Testing Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Webspider. 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.

The bug was discovered 07/30/2007. The weakness was disclosed 06/05/2017 by Marc Ruef with scip AG as ID 101969 as confirmed entry (VulDB). The advisory is shared for download at vuldb.com. The public release happened without coordination with the vendor. The entry contains:

The Attack Tool Kit (ATK) is an exploiting framwork published under GPL3. Back in 2006 there was a legal dispute between the developer Marc Ruef and the German company WEKA. Ruef claimed that WEKA violated the open-source license while they were using parts of the project within their commercial vulnerability scanner. During the technical analysis of INTEREST SEcurity Scanner several security issues, which affect the handling of the vulnerability scanner, got determined.
This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-20014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The advisory points out:
The webspider module is not able to see and fetch files beginning with a dot.

A public exploit has been developed by Marc Ruef and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at vuldb.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3598 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

The problem might be mitigated by replacing the product with ATK - Attack Tool Kit as an alternative.

computec.ch is providing further details. The entries VDB-101969, VDB-101970, VDB-101971 and VDB-101973 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.7
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.7

VulDB Base Score: 2.8
VulDB Temp Score: 2.7
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Marc Ruef
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Recommended: Alternative
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Alternative: ATK - Attack Tool Kit

Timelineinfo

07/30/2007 🔍
06/05/2017 +3598 days 🔍
06/05/2017 +0 days 🔍
06/05/2017 +0 days 🔍
01/28/2022 +1697 days 🔍
08/06/2024 +921 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: ID 101969
Researcher: Marc Ruef
Organization: scip AG
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2017-20014 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-20014
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-101972
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/05/2017 22:20
Updated: 08/06/2024 03:24
Changes: 06/05/2017 22:20 (59), 09/27/2020 09:27 (2), 01/28/2022 12:26 (5), 12/07/2022 18:05 (3), 12/07/2022 18:12 (27), 08/06/2024 03:24 (15)
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