Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 4 < 4.0.20060717 Denial of Service

low Nessus Plugin ID 73307

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Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The remote Windows host is running Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 4 prior to 4.0.20060717. It is, therefore affected by a denial of service vulnerability. An attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending multiple HTTP requests containing invalid 'Content-Length' values to cause an application crash.

Solution

Upgrade to 4.0.20060717 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 73307

File Name: acunetix_wvs_4_20060717.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: remote

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 4/2/2014

Updated: 6/27/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:acunetix:web_vulnerability_scanner

Required KB Items: SMB/AcunetixWVS/4/Path, SMB/AcunetixWVS/4/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0120

BID: 21898

Detections

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