BadBlue Connection Saturation Remote DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 14350

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Synopsis

The remote web server is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

According to its banner, the remote BadBlue web server has a bug which may allow attackers to prevent it from serving pages properly. It is possible to disable the remote BadBlue server by issuing approximately 24 concurrent connections to the remote host. An attacker may exploit this flaw by issuing over 24 connections to the remote server and waiting indefinitely, thus preventing legitimate users from being able to connect to this service at all.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 14350

File Name: badblue_max_connections_dos.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: remote

Family: Web Servers

Published: 8/23/2004

Updated: 6/27/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1727

BID: 10983

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