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CVE-2000-0622: Oreilly Website Professional: Command injection

CVE-2000-0622 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Oreilly Website Professional. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Buffer overflow in Webfind CGI program in O'Reilly WebSite Professional web server 2.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a URL containing a long "keywords" parameter.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
• Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
• Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
• Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
• Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
• Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

• Oreilly Website Professional: 2.3.18; 2.4; 2.4.9

References

• http://website.oreilly.com/support/software/wspro25_releasenotes.txt
• http://www.nai.com/research/covert/advisories/043.asp
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1487
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/4962