WinComLPD LPD Monitoring Server Authentication Bypass

high Nessus Plugin ID 30187

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Synopsis

The remote service is affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability.

Description

The remote installation of WinComLPD fails to ensure that authentication to its LPD Monitoring Server has been successful before processing requests. A remote attacker can leverage this issue to bypass authentication and gain administrative control of the affected application.

Note that there are reportedly several other vulnerabilities associated with this version of WinComLPD, including multiple buffer overflows, although Nessus has not checked for them.

Solution

Unknown at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 30187

File Name: wincomlpd_lpdservice_auth_bypass.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 2/6/2008

Updated: 8/6/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Exploited by Nessus: true

Exploitable With

Metasploit (WinComLPD Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5158

BID: 27614

CWE: 287

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