Geeos Team Gattaca Server 2003 1.1.10.0 Language denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Geeos Team Gattaca Server 2003 1.1.10.0. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation of the argument Language leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-2519. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Geeos Team Gattaca Server 2003 1.1.10.0. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument LANGUAGE with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Gattaca Server 2003 1.1.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via directory specifiers in the LANGUAGE parameter to (1) index.tmpl and (2) web.tmpl, such as (a) slash "/", (b) backslash "\", (c) dot ".",, (d) dot dot "..", and (e) internal slash "lang//en".

The bug was discovered 07/15/2004. The weakness was disclosed 07/15/2004 by Dr_insane (Website). The advisory is available at gattaca-server.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-2519 since 10/25/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 12091 (Gattaca Server 2003 Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities).

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 (16700), Exploit-DB (24282), SecurityFocus (BID 10728†), OSVDB (7923†) and Secunia (SA12071†). The entries VDB-23405, VDB-23404, VDB-23403 and VDB-23401 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: gattaca-server.com
Researcher: Dr_insane
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2004-2519 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-2519
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-23402
X-Force: 16700
SecurityFocus: 10728 - Gattaca Server 2003 Multiple Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 12071 - Gattaca Server 2003 Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 7923 - Gattaca Server 2003 Language Variable Path Exposure
SecurityTracker: 1010703
Vulnerability Center: 10385 - Gattaca Remote DoS via LANGUAGE Parameter to Various Scripts, High

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

Created: 03/09/2015 16:55
Updated: 01/10/2025 10:59
Changes: 03/09/2015 16:55 (68), 06/14/2019 11:05 (7), 01/10/2025 10:59 (23)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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