Description
IBM Web Traffic Express Caching Proxy Server 3.6 and 4.x before 4.0.1.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP request to helpout.exe with a missing HTTP version number, which causes ibmproxy.exe to crash.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- IBM Websphere Caching Proxy 3.6/4.0 - Denial of Service EDB-21949 · dos · Oct 18, 2002 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- ibm-wte-helpout-dos(10452) vdb-entry
- IY35970 vendor-advisory
- http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0007.txt
- 6002 vdb-entry
- 2090 vdb-entry