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CVE-2011-0488: Advantech Studio: Buffer overflow

CVE-2011-0488 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Advantech Studio. 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

Stack-based buffer overflow in NTWebServer.exe in the test web service in InduSoft NTWebServer, as distributed in Advantech Studio 6.1 and InduSoft Web Studio 7.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long request to TCP port 80.

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.

Underlying weakness

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.

Affected products

Advantech Studio: 6.1
Indusoft Web Studio: 7.0