Invision Power Services IP.Board 2.0.1 index.php denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Invision Power Services IP.Board 2.0.1. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file index.php. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2006-0888. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Invision Power Services IP.Board 2.0.1 (Forum Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file index.php. The manipulation 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:

index.php in Invision Power Board (IPB) 2.0.1, with Code Confirmation disabled, allows remote attackers to cause an unspecified denial of service by registering a large number of users.

The weakness was presented 02/10/2006 by SkOd (Website). The advisory is available at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-0888 since 02/25/2006. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by SkOd and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.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. By approaching the search of inurl:index.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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 Exploit-DB (1489), SecurityFocus (BID 16616†) and OSVDB (28142†). 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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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: SkOd
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02/13/2006 +2 days 🔍
02/25/2006 +12 days 🔍
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08/22/2006 +178 days 🔍
03/12/2015 +3123 days 🔍
06/16/2024 +3384 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: invisioncommunity.com

Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Researcher: SkOd
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-0888 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-0888
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-28898
SecurityFocus: 16616 - Invision Power Board User Registration Denial of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 28142 - Invision Power Board index.php User Registration Saturation DoS

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 11:11
Updated: 06/16/2024 21:23
Changes: 03/12/2015 11:11 (52), 08/04/2017 08:52 (11), 06/16/2024 21:23 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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