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UltraSeek < 4.0 Malformed URL DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1459

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Description

An attacker may be able to remotely disable this UltraSeek server by doingt a malformed request to it (as in /index.html?&col).

Solution

Upgrade to UltraSeek 4.0 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 1459

Family: Web Servers

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 10542

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:inktomi:search_software

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2000-1019

BID: 1866