WinGate < 6.2.2 Invalid SMTP State Remote DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4166

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote host appears to be running WinGate, a Windows application for managing and securing Internet access. The version of WinGate installed on the remote host fails to sanitize user-supplied input to its SMTP server component of format strings before using it to log a problem. By connecting to the service and issuing commands the server was not expecting, a remote attacker may be able to force the service to an invalid state and crash the WinGate service itself, thereby denying service to legitimate users.

Solution

Upgrade to version 6.2.2 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4166

Family: Web Servers

Published: 8/13/2007

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 25879

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:qbik:wingate

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4335

BID: 25272, 25303

Detections

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