Finjan Surfingate 6.0/6.0.1 FQDN privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Finjan Surfingate 6.0/6.0.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component FQDN Handler. This manipulation with the input . causes privileges management. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2002-1961. In addition, an exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Finjan Surfingate 6.0/6.0.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component FQDN Handler. The manipulation with the input value . leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Finjan Software SurfinGate 6.0 and 6.0 1 allows remote attackers to bypass URL access restrictions via a URL whose hostname portion uses a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) that ends in a "." (dot).

The weakness was presented 09/04/2002 by Marc Ruef with scip AG (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2002-1961 since 06/29/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also 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 by Marc Ruef in Windows Binary and been published immediately after the advisory. It is declared as highly functional.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (10037) and SecurityFocus (BID 5634†). See VDB-19604 for similar entry. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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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: Highly functional
Author: Marc Ruef
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

09/04/2002 🔍
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12/31/2002 +118 days 🔍
06/29/2005 +911 days 🔍
08/05/2014 +3324 days 🔍
04/23/2025 +3914 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Marc Ruef
Organization: scip AG
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2002-1961 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-1961
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-19603
X-Force: 10037
SecurityFocus: 5634 - Finjan SurfinGate Trailing Character URL Filter Bypassing Vulnerability

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

Created: 08/05/2014 11:19
Updated: 04/23/2025 05:08
Changes: 08/05/2014 11:19 (61), 06/10/2018 09:13 (2), 07/07/2024 04:44 (17), 04/23/2025 05:08 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:A44:103

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