Description
DiGi Web Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP GET request that contains a large number of / (slash) characters, which consumes resources when DiGi converts the slashes to \ (backslash) characters.
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
- DiGi WWW Server 1 - Remote Denial of Service EDB-24066 · dos · Apr 27, 2004 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 10228 vdb-entry
- 11490 third-party-advisory
- 5702 vdb-entry
- 20040427 resources consumption in DiGi WWW Server mailing-list
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=234261
- digi-www-slash-dos(15987) vdb-entry
- 1009957 vdb-entry
- http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/DiGiWwwServerC1-adv.txt