Electrosoft Electrocomm 1.0/2.0 Telnet Service denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Electrosoft Electrocomm 1.0/2.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Telnet Service. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2001-0563. Moreover, an exploit is present. Applying restrictive firewalling is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Electrosoft Electrocomm 1.0/2.0. Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Telnet Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

ElectroSystems Engineering Inc. ElectroComm 2.0 and earlier allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via large (> 160000 character) strings sent to port 23.

The bug was discovered 05/08/2001. The weakness was disclosed 08/14/2001 by nemesystm (Website). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2001-0563. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 98 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 38014 (ElectroSoft ElectroComm Denial of Service Vulnerability).

It is possible to mitigate the weakness by firewalling tcp/23 (telnet).

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6514), Exploit-DB (20834), SecurityFocus (BID 2706†), OSVDB (1818†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-6673†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.7

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Recommended: Firewall
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Timelineinfo

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08/14/2001 +98 days 🔍
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10/05/2025 +4108 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: nemesystm
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2001-0563 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2001-0563
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-17172
X-Force: 6514
SecurityFocus: 2706 - ElectroSoft ElectroComm Denial of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 1818 - ElectroSoft - ElectroComm - Denial of Service Issue
Vulnerability Center: 6673 - DoS in ElectroSoft ElectroComm 1.0, 2.0 via Buffer Overflow, Medium

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

Entryinfo

Created: 07/08/2014 00:35
Updated: 10/05/2025 19:01
Changes: 07/08/2014 00:35 (62), 06/03/2019 12:15 (4), 01/26/2025 10:55 (21), 10/05/2025 19:01 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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