Business Objects Crystal Reports 9 Web Interface Disk Exhaustion denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Business Objects Crystal Reports 9. This affects an unknown function of the component Web Interface. The manipulation results in denial of service (Disk Exhaustion). This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-1981. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Business Objects Crystal Reports 9 (Reporting Software). Affected is an unknown code block of the component Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability (Disk Exhaustion). 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:

The web interface for Crystal Reports allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk exhaustion) by repeatedly requesting reports without retrieving the associated image files, which are not cleared from the image file folder.

The bug was discovered 05/02/2004. The weakness was published 05/02/2004 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-1981 since 05/04/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (16044), OSVDB (6747†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-11725†). Similar entry is available at VDB-22012. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Name: Disk Exhaustion
Class: Denial of service / Disk Exhaustion
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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05/04/2005 +367 days 🔍
05/31/2006 +392 days 🔍
10/16/2014 +3060 days 🔍
09/05/2019 +1785 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1981 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1981
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-21810
X-Force: 16044
OSVDB: 6747 - CVE-2004-1981 - Business Objects - Crystal Reports - Denial-Of-Service Issue
Vulnerability Center: 11725 - Crystal Reports Denial of Service via Repeated Malicious Report Requests, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/16/2014 13:26
Updated: 09/05/2019 16:26
Changes: 10/16/2014 13:26 (57), 09/05/2019 16:26 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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