Working Resources Inc. BadBlue 2.50 Connection denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Working Resources Inc. BadBlue 2.50. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Connection Handler. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2004-1727. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Working Resources Inc. BadBlue 2.50 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Connection Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

BadBlue 2.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (refuse HTTP connections) via a large number of connections from the same IP address.

The weakness was presented 08/20/2004 by James Bercegay with Gulftech (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-1727 since 02/26/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14350 (BadBlue Connection Saturation Remote DoS), 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.

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 (17064), Exploit-DB (419), Tenable (14350), SecurityFocus (BID 10983†) and OSVDB (9107†). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 14350
Nessus Name: BadBlue Connection Saturation Remote DoS
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: James Bercegay
Organization: Gulftech
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1727 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1727
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22153
X-Force: 17064
SecurityFocus: 10983 - Working Resources BadBlue Webserver Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 12346
OSVDB: 9107 - BadBlue Connection Saturation Remote DoS
Vulnerability Center: 5263 - DoS in BadBlue Personal Edition 2.52 via Multiple Connections to the Remote Server, High

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

Entryinfo

Created: 04/14/2015 13:18
Updated: 07/08/2025 17:59
Changes: 04/14/2015 13:18 (74), 05/24/2019 14:38 (1), 07/08/2025 17:59 (20)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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