National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2734

Overview

The 3Com TippingPoint IPS do not properly handle certain full-width and half-width Unicode character encodings in an HTTP POST request, which might allow remote attackers to evade detection of HTTP traffic.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#739224

Name: VU#739224

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/739224

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25302

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25302

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1817

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1817

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070515 GS07-01 Full-Width and Half-Width Unicode Encoding IDS/IPS/WAF Bypass Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/468633/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.gamasec.net/english/gs07-01.html

Hyperlink:http://www.gamasec.net/english/gs07-01.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.3com.com/securityalert/alerts/3COM-07-001.html

Hyperlink:http://www.3com.com/securityalert/alerts/3COM-07-001.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 35968

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/35968

External Source: SREASON

Name: 2712

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2712