Description
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.x and 9.x performs web crawls with an unlimited recursion depth, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted series of documents.
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 OmniFind Crawler - Denial of Service EDB-15476 · dos · Nov 9, 2010
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 69078 vdb-entry
- 15476 exploit
- 20101109 IBM OmniFind - several vulnerabilities mailing-list
- 44740 vdb-entry
- http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt
- ADV-2010-2933 vdb-entry