Looking Glass 2004-04-27 privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Looking Glass 2004-04-27. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2005-2777. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Looking Glass 2004-04-27. Affected is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Looking Glass 20040427 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the DNS lookup query field.

The bug was discovered 08/29/2005. The weakness was disclosed 09/02/2005 by retrogod (Website). The advisory is available at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2005-2777 since 09/02/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 19523 (Looking Glass Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses 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 (22045), Exploit-DB (26203), Tenable (19523), SecurityFocus (BID 14682†) and OSVDB (19053†). The entry VDB-26201 is pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 19523
Nessus Name: Looking Glass Multiple Vulnerabilities
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08/27/2005 🔍
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08/29/2005 +2 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Researcher: retrogod
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-2777 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-2777
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-26202
X-Force: 22045
SecurityFocus: 14682 - Looking Glass Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 16607 - Looking Glass Cross-Site Scripting and Shell Command Injection, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 19053 - Looking Glass- Remote Command Execution Issue
Vulnerability Center: 9156 - Looking Glass DNS Lookup Query Field Arbitrary Command Execution, High

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

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 08/12/2025 08:23
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (69), 06/09/2019 12:19 (7), 08/12/2025 08:23 (21)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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