Sympa < 5.4 Content-Type Header Remote DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4454

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote host is running Sympa, a mailing list manager. This version of Sympa is reported to be vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service flaw stemming from an inability to properly parse user-supplied 'Content-Type' headers. An attacker exploiting this flaw would send a malformed request to the server, causing the service to fail.

Solution

Upgrade to version 5.4 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4454

Family: CGI

Published: 4/1/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 31726

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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: 4.9

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:sympa:sympa

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1648

BID: 28539