BEA WebLogic up to 8.1.5 X.509 Client Certificate improper authentication

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in BEA WebLogic up to 8.1.5 and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component X.509 Client Certificate Handler. This manipulation causes improper authentication. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-1999-0449. No exploit is available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in BEA WebLogic up to 8.1.5 (Application Server Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component X.509 Client Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The ExAir sample site in IIS 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a direct request to the (1) advsearch.asp, (2) query.asp, or (3) search.asp scripts.

The weakness was published 01/17/2007 by David Litchfield (nemo) with BEA (Website). The advisory is shared at dev2dev.bea.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-1999-0449. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10004 (Microsoft IIS search.asp Direct Request DoS), 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.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at dev2dev.bea.com. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 1500. In this case the pattern /exair/search/ is used for detection. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 1036.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (2229), Tenable (10004), SecurityFocus (BID 193†), OSVDB (2†) and Secunia (SA23750†). Similar entries are available at VDB-2858, VDB-2856, VDB-2847 and VDB-2852. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
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VulDB Base Score: 6.5
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Class: Improper authentication
CWE: CWE-287
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 10004
Nessus Name: Microsoft IIS search.asp Direct Request DoS
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Patch: dev2dev.bea.com

Snort ID: 1500
Snort Message: WEB-MISC ExAir access
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01/26/1999 🔍
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06/22/1999 +147 days 🔍
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01/17/2007 +1562 days 🔍
01/22/2007 +5 days 🔍
05/04/2019 +4485 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: dev2dev.bea.com
Researcher: David Litchfield (nemo)
Organization: BEA
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-0449 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-0449
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2845
X-Force: 2229
SecurityFocus: 193 - NT IIS4 DoS - ExAir Sample Site Vulnerability
Secunia: 23750 - BEA WebLogic Multiple Vulnerabilities and Security Issues, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 2 - Microsoft IIS ExAir search.asp Direct Request DoS
Vulnerability Center: 15 - DoS in Microsoft IIS 4.0 via ExAir Sample Site Scripts, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/22/2007 10:51
Updated: 05/04/2019 16:34
Changes: 01/22/2007 10:51 (91), 05/04/2019 16:34 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:0A1:103

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