Daniel Beckham The Finger Server up to 0.82 open Metacharacter privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Daniel Beckham The Finger Server up to 0.82. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is the function Open. Such manipulation as part of Metacharacter leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2000-0128. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Daniel Beckham The Finger Server up to 0.82. It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is the function open. The manipulation as part of a Metacharacter leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Finger Server 0.82 allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters.

The weakness was presented 02/04/2000 by Iain Wade as not defined changelog entry (Website). The advisory is shared for download at glazed.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2000-0128. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/24/2024). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

After 5 years, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 2308.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (4006), Exploit-DB (19745), SecurityFocus (BID 974†), OSVDB (7610†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-4711†). See VDB-13923 for similar entry. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Vendor

• Daniel Beckham

Name

• The Finger Server

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
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• 0.74
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• 0.78
• 0.79
• 0.80
• 0.81
• 0.82

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: glazed.org
Researcher: Iain Wade
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2000-0128 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2000-0128
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-15308
X-Force: 4006
SecurityFocus: 974 - Finger Server Pipe Vulnerability
OSVDB: 7610 - The Finger Server Shell Metacharacter Arbitrary Command Execution
Vulnerability Center: 4711 - Daniel Beckham Finger Server Enables Command Execution, High

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/23/2014 17:12
Updated: 07/24/2024 00:42
Changes: 06/23/2014 17:12 (66), 05/22/2019 21:32 (4), 07/24/2024 00:42 (21)
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Cache ID: 216:C12:103

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