CVE-2017-20016: WEKA INTEREST Security Scanner HTTP denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in WEKA INTEREST Security Scanner 1.8 (Security Testing Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component HTTP Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. Impacted is availability.

The bug was discovered 07/30/2007. The weakness was shared 06/05/2017 by Marc Ruef with scip AG as ID 101969 as confirmed entry (VulDB). The advisory is shared at vuldb.com. The public release happened without involvement of WEKA. The entry contains:

The Attack Tool Kit (ATK) is an exploiting framwork published under GPL3. Back in 2006 there was a legal dispute between the developer Marc Ruef and the German company WEKA. Ruef claimed that WEKA violated the open-source license while they were using parts of the project within their commercial vulnerability scanner. During the technical analysis of INTEREST SEcurity Scanner several security issues, which affect the handling of the vulnerability scanner, got determined.

The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-20011. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The advisory points out:

This version does not send a newline twice within HTTP plugins which leads to corrupt HTTP requests. These are not able to determine any issues.

A public exploit has been developed by Marc Ruef and been published immediately after the advisory. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The exploit is available at vuldb.com. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4265 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

The problem might be mitigated by replacing the product with ATK - Attack Tool Kit as an alternative.

computec.ch is providing further details. The entries 101970, 101971, 101972 and 101973 are related to this item.

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• Security Testing Software

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• WEKA

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• INTEREST Security Scanner

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 2.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 2.7

VulDB Base Score: 2.8
VulDB Temp Score: 2.7
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Exploitinginfoedit

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Marc Ruef
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Alternative: ATK - Attack Tool Kit

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10/01/2005 🔍
07/30/2007 +667 days 🔍
06/05/2017 +3598 days 🔍
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01/28/2022 +1698 days 🔍

Sourcesinfoedit

Advisory: ID 101969
Researcher: Marc Ruef
Organization: scip AG
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2017-20011 (🔍)
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 06/05/2017 22:20
Updated: 01/28/2022 12:08
Changes: (1) exploit_price_0day
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