Working Resources Inc. Badblue 2.2 ISAPI Extension privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Working Resources Inc. Badblue 2.2. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component ISAPI Extension. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0332. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Working Resources Inc. Badblue 2.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component ISAPI Extension. The manipulation with an unknown input 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. The summary by CVE is:

The ISAPI extension in BadBlue 1.7 through 2.2, and possibly earlier versions, modifies the first two letters of a filename extension after performing a security check, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a filename with a .ats extension instead of a .hts extension.

The bug was discovered 05/20/2003. The weakness was disclosed 06/09/2003 by mattmurphy (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2003-0332 since 05/20/2003. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11554 (BadBlue ISAPI Extension .hts Crafted File Extension Request Authentication Bypass), 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 86554 (Working Resources BadBlue Unauthorized HTS Access Vulnerability).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (12034), Exploit-DB (22620), Tenable (11554), SecurityFocus (BID 7638†) and OSVDB (8614†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Access: Public
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Nessus ID: 11554
Nessus Name: BadBlue ISAPI Extension .hts Crafted File Extension Request Authentication Bypass
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Recommended: Upgrade
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04/27/2003 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: mattmurphy
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2003-0332 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0332
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-20507
X-Force: 12034
SecurityFocus: 7638 - Working Resources BadBlue Unauthorized HTS Access Vulnerability
OSVDB: 8614 - CVE-2003-0332 - BadBlue - Access Bypass Issue
Vulnerability Center: 6321 - Working Resources Inc. BadBlue Allows Bypassing Authentication via Filename With .ats Extension, High

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

Entryinfo

Created: 08/12/2014 00:53
Updated: 08/18/2025 10:21
Changes: 08/12/2014 00:53 (62), 06/04/2019 14:58 (7), 04/25/2025 14:39 (27), 08/18/2025 10:21 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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