John Roy Pi3Web 2.0 Request privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in John Roy Pi3Web 2.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Request Handler. Performing a manipulation with the input ... results in privileges management. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2002-0142. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. It is suggested to use restrictive firewalling.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in John Roy Pi3Web 2.0. This affects an unknown function of the component Request Handler. The manipulation with the input value ... leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

CGI handler in John Roy Pi3Web for Windows 2.0 beta 1 and 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a series of requests whose physical path is exactly 260 characters long and ends in a series of . (dot) characters.

The weakness was shared 03/25/2002 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2002-0142. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11099 (Pi3Web < 2.0.1 CGI Handler Long Parameter Handling Overflow), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Web Servers and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 86294 (John Roy Pi3Web Long Request Buffer Overflow Vulnerability).

It is possible to mitigate the weakness by firewalling .

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (7880), Exploit-DB (21225), Tenable (11099), SecurityFocus (BID 3866†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-1657†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 11099
Nessus Name: Pi3Web < 2.0.1 CGI Handler Long Parameter Handling Overflow
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Recommended: Firewall
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01/14/2002 🔍
03/25/2002 +70 days 🔍
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08/22/2002 +150 days 🔍
08/13/2003 +356 days 🔍
07/11/2014 +3985 days 🔍
09/22/2025 +4091 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2002-0142 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-0142
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-18039
X-Force: 7880
SecurityFocus: 3866 - John Roy Pi3Web For Windows Long Request Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 1657 - DoS in Pi3Web Web Server CGI Handler via Malformed HTTP Requests, High

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

Entryinfo

Created: 07/11/2014 13:47
Updated: 09/22/2025 13:34
Changes: 07/11/2014 13:47 (59), 05/11/2019 11:45 (12), 06/01/2025 00:11 (21), 09/22/2025 13:34 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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