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CVSTrac Invalid Ticket DoS

🗓️ 17 Aug 2004 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
🔗 www.tenable.com👁 13 Views

Denial of service vulnerability in CVSTrac allows remote server shutdown via invalid tickets exploitation.

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Code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
 script_id(14287);
 script_version("1.15");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");


 script_name(english:"CVSTrac Invalid Ticket DoS");
 script_summary(english:"Checks for CVSTrac version");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server is hosting a CGI application that is affected 
by a denial of service vulnerability.");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host seems to be running cvstrac, a web-based bug and 
patch-set tracking system for CVS.

This version contains a flaw related to invalid tickets that may allow
an attacker to cause the application to crash.  An attacker, 
exploiting this flaw, would be able to remotely shut down the cvstrac
server.

***** Nessus has determined the vulnerability exists on the target
***** simply by looking at the version number(s) of CVSTrac
***** installed there.");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.cvstrac.org/cvstrac/chngview?cn=193");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.cvstrac.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=116");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update to version 1.1.4 or later as this reportedly fixes the issue.");
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/08/17");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2002/08/28");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
 script_end_attributes();
 
 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
 script_family(english:"CGI abuses");

 script_dependencie("cvstrac_detect.nasl");
 script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("global_settings.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
port = get_http_port(default:80, embedded:TRUE);
kb = get_kb_item("www/" + port + "/cvstrac" );
if ( ! kb ) exit(0);
stuff = eregmatch(pattern:"(.*) under (.*)", string:kb );
version = stuff[1]; 
if(ereg(pattern:"^(0\.|1\.(0|1\.[0-3]([^0-9]|$)))", string:version))
	security_warning(port);

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