National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2697
Original release date:05/16/2007
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The embedded LDAP server in BEA WebLogic Express and WebLogic Server 7.0 through SP6, 8.1 through SP5, 9.0, and 9.1, when in certain configurations, does not limit or audit failed authentication attempts, which allows remote attackers to more easily conduct brute-force attacks against the administrator password, or flood the server with login attempts and cause a denial of service.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BEA
Name: BEA07-161.00
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: weblogic-ldap-brute-force(34291)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1815
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018057
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25284
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 36072
