National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3701

Overview

TippingPoint IPS before 20070710 does not properly handle a hex-encoded alternate Unicode '/' (slash) character, which might allow remote attackers to send certain network traffic and avoid detection, as demonstrated by a cmd.exe attack.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070710 TippingPoint IPS Signature Evasion

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/473311/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.3com.com/securityalert/alerts/3COM-07-003.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.3com.com/securityalert/alerts/3COM-07-003.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://security-assessment.com/files/advisories/2007-07-11_Tippingpoint_IPS_Signature_Evasion.pdf

Type: Advisory; Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://security-assessment.com/files/advisories/2007-07-11_Tippingpoint_IPS_Signature_Evasion.pdf

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2490

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2490

External Source: BID

Name: 24855

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24855

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 35970

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/35970

External Source: XF

Name: tippingpoint-hex-security-byass(35336)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35336

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018361

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018361

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26013

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26013

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20070710 TippingPoint IPS Signature Evasion

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064550.html