LiteServe HTTP Service Malformed URL Decoding Remote DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 11155

Synopsis

The remote web server may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack.

Description

The remote web server does not respond after it receives a URL consisting of a long string of '%' characters.

Note that if the web server is protected with some sort of Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), this may be a false-positive.

Solution

If the web server does indeed crash when scanned with this plugin, then upgrade or replace the server, protect it with a proxy, or firewall it.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 11155

File Name: LiteServe_DoS.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: remote

Family: Web Servers

Published: 11/18/2002

Updated: 8/9/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Detections

Analytics