National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5819
Original release date:11/18/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Verity Ultraseek before 5.7 allows remote attackers to use the server as a proxy for web attacks and host scanning via a direct request to the highlight/index.html script.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Solution
This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release:
Verity, Ultraseek, 5.7}
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#559616
Name: VU#559616
External Source: XF
Name: verity-ultraseek-highlight-info-disclosure(30311)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-042.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20061115 ZDI-06-042: Verity Ultraseek Request Proxying Vulnerability
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 30286
Type: Patch Information
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 22892
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 21120
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017235
