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Analyze CVE-1999-0990 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Error messages generated by gdm with the VerboseAuth setting allows an attacker to identify valid users on a system. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0284 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflow in University of Washington imapd version 4.7 allows users with a valid account to execute commands via LIST or other commands. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2003-1323 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Elm ME+ 2.4 before PL109S, when installed setgid mail and the operating system lacks POSIX saved ID support, allows local users to read and modify certain files with the privileges of the mail group via unspecified vectors. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-1107 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
in.identd ident server in SuSE Linux 6.x and 7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long request, which causes the server to access a NULL pointer and crash. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0072 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Visual Casel (Vcasel) does not properly prevent users from executing files, which allows local users to use a relative pathname to specify an alternate file which has an approved name and possibly gain privileges. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0327 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) allows remote attackers to escape the Java sandbox and execute commands via an applet containing an illegal cast operation, aka the "Virtual Machine Verifier" vulnerability. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2004-1754 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The DNS proxy (DNSd) for multiple Symantec Gateway Security products allows remote attackers to poison the DNS cache via a malicious DNS server query response that contains authoritative or additional records. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1267 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
KDE file manager (kfm) uses a TCP server for certain file operations, which allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary files by sending a copy command to the server. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Summarize the security research: Co-evolutionary Dynamics of Attack and Defence in Cybersecurity
In the evolving digital landscape, it is crucial to study the dynamics of cyberattacks and defences. This study uses an Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) framework to investigate the evolutionary dynamics of attacks and defences in cyberspace. We develop a two-population asymmetric game between attacker and defender to ca...
Analyze CVE-2001-0537 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
HTTP server for Cisco IOS 11.3 to 12.2 allows attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands, when local authorization is being used, by specifying a high access level in the URL. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: CWE-287
Analyze CVE-2000-0331 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflow in Microsoft command processor (CMD.EXE) for Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows a local user to cause a denial of service via a long environment variable, aka the "Malformed Environment Variable" vulnerability. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2003-1291 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
VMware ESX Server 1.5.2 before Patch 4 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs as root via certain modified VMware ESX Server environment variables. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0333 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
tcpdump, Ethereal, and other sniffer packages allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed DNS packets in which a jump offset refers to itself, which causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop while decompressing the packet. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0231 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Linux kreatecd trusts a user-supplied path that is used to find the cdrecord program, allowing local users to gain root privileges. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2004-2088 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Sophos Anti-Virus 3.78 allows remote attackers to bypass virus scanning by using a qmail generated Delivery Status Notification (DSN) where the original email is not included in the bounce message. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-1477 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The Domain gateway in BEA Tuxedo 7.1 does not perform authorization checks for imported services and qspaces on remote domains, even when an ACL exists, which allows users to access services in a remote domain. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-0346 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Handle leak in Microsoft Windows 2000 telnet service allows attackers to cause a denial of service by starting a large number of sessions and terminating them. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1126 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Cisco Resource Manager (CRM) 1.1 and earlier creates certain files with insecure permissions that allow local users to obtain sensitive configuration information including usernames, passwords, and SNMP community strings, from (1) swim_swd.log, (2) swim_debug.log, (3) dbi_debug.log, and (4) temporary files whose names ...
Analyze CVE-2004-0605 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Non-registered IRC users using (1) ircd-hybrid 7.0.1 and earlier, (2) ircd-ratbox 1.5.1 and earlier, or (3) ircd-ratbox 2.0rc6 and earlier do not have a rate-limit imposed, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by repeatedly making requests, which are slowly dequeued. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weak...
Analyze CVE-2002-1919 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
SQL injection vulnerability in shopadmin.asp in VP-ASP 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands and bypass authentication via the (1) username or (2) password fields. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2005-0189 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Stack-based buffer overflow in the HandleAction function in RealPlayer 10.5 (6.0.12.1040) and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long ShowPreferences argument. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-0557 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Vulnerability in OpenBSD 3.0, when using YP with netgroups in the password database, causes (1) rexec or (2) rsh to run another user's shell, or (3) atrun to change to a different user's directory, possibly due to memory allocation failures or an incorrect call to auth_approval(). Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE...
Analyze CVE-2000-1161 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The installation of AdCycle banner management system leaves the build.cgi program in a web-accessible directory, which allows remote attackers to execute the program and view passwords or delete databases. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-2239 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The Cisco Optical Service Module (OSM) for the Catalyst 6500 and 7600 series running Cisco IOS 12.1(8)E through 12.1(13.4)E allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed packet. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: CWE-20
Analyze CVE-1999-1244 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
IPFilter 3.2.3 through 3.2.10 allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the saved output file. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2003-1222 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
BEA Weblogic Express and Server 8.0 through 8.1 SP 1, when using a foreign Java Message Service (JMS) provider, echoes the password for the foreign provider to the console and stores it in cleartext in config.xml, which could allow attackers to obtain the password. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0334 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The Allaire Spectra container editor preview tool does not properly enforce object security, which allows an attacker to conduct unauthorized activities via an object-method that is added to the container object with a publishing rule. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-1190 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Cisco Unity 2.x and 3.x uses well-known default user accounts, which could allow remote attackers to gain access and place arbitrary calls. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-0275 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Falcon web server 2.0.0.1020 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and read restricted files via an extra / (slash) in the requested URL. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-0349 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
A buffer overflow in the FTP list (ls) command in IIS allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service and, in some cases, execute arbitrary commands. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: CWE-119
Analyze CVE-2002-1871 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
pkgadd in Sun Solaris 2.5.1 through 8 installs files setuid/setgid root if the pkgmap file contains a "?" (question mark) in the (1) mode, (2) owner, or (3) group fields, which allows attackers to elevate privileges. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-1306 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Multiple buffer overflows in LISa on KDE 2.x for 2.1 and later, and KDE 3.x before 3.0.4, allow (1) local and possibly remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the "lisa" daemon, and (2) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a certain "lan://" URL. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-2249 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in News Evolution 2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands via the neurl parameter to (1) backend.php, (2) screen.php, or (3) admin/modules/comment.php. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: CWE-94
Analyze CVE-2001-0562 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
a1disp.cgi program in Drummond Miles A1Stats prior to 1.6 allows a remote attacker to execute commands via a specially crafted URL which includes shell metacharacters. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1400 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The Economist screen saver 1999 with the "Password Protected" option enabled allows users with physical access to the machine to bypass the screen saver and read files by running Internet Explorer while the screen is still locked. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-2245 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
ftpd in NetBSD 1.5 through 1.5.3 and 1.6 does not properly quote a digit in response to a STAT command for a filename that contains a carriage return followed by a digit, which can cause firewalls and other intermediary devices to lose proper track of the FTP session. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: CWE-189
Analyze CVE-1999-1230 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Quake 2 server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a spoofed UDP packet with a source address of 127.0.0.1, which causes the server to attempt to connect to itself. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1343 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
HTTP server for Xerox DocuColor 4 LP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a long URL that contains a large number of . characters. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2004-1000 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
lintian 1.23 and earlier removes the working directory even if it was not created by lintian, which may allow local users to delete arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2003-1122 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
ScriptLogic 4.01, and possibly other versions before 4.14, uses insecure permissions for the LOGS$ share, which allows users to modify log records and possibly execute arbitrary code. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0027 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
IBM Network Station Manager NetStation allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-0852 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflows in Cisco Virtual Private Network (VPN) Client 3.5.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) an Internet Key Exchange (IKE) with a large Security Parameter Index (SPI) payload, or (2) an IKE packet with a large number of valid payloads. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD...
Analyze CVE-2002-2268 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflow in Webster HTTP Server allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long URL. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: CWE-119
Analyze CVE-2000-1236 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
SQL injection vulnerability in mod_sql in Oracle Internet Application Server (IAS) 3.0.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the query string of the URL. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2004-1378 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The expat XML parser code, as used in the open source Jabber (jabberd) 1.4.3 and earlier, jadc2s 0.9.0 and earlier, and possibly other packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to a socket that accepts XML connections. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CW...
Analyze CVE-2004-0430 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Stack-based buffer overflow in AppleFileServer for Mac OS X 10.3.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a LoginExt packet for a Cleartext Password User Authentication Method (UAM) request with a PathName argument that includes an AFPName type string that is longer than the associated length...
Summarize the security research: Applying Public Health Systematic Approaches to Cybersecurity: The Economics of Collective Defense
The U.S. public health system increased life expectancy by more than 30 years since 1900 through systematic data collection, evidence-based intervention, and coordinated response. This paper examines whether cybersecurity can benefit from similar organizational principles. We find that both domains exhibit public good ...
Analyze CVE-2003-0850 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The TCP reassembly functionality in libnids before 1.18 allows remote attackers to cause "memory corruption" and possibly execute arbitrary code via "overlarge TCP packets." Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-1286 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Ipswitch IMail 7.04 and earlier stores a user's session ID in a URL, which could allow remote attackers to hijack sessions by obtaining the URL, e.g. via an HTML email that causes the Referrer to be sent to a URL under the attacker's control. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2003-1241 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) in (1) admin_index.php, (2) admin_pass.php, (3) admin_modif.php, and (4) admin_suppr.php in MyGuestbook 3.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by modifying the location parameter to reference a URL on a remote web server that contains file.php via script injec...
Analyze CVE-2003-1097 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflow in rexec on HP-UX B.10.20, B.11.00, and B.11.04, when setuid root, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long -l option. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-0684 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflow in DNS resolver functions that perform lookup of network names and addresses, as used in BIND 4.9.8 and ported to glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, allows remote malicious DNS servers to execute arbitrary code through a subroutine used by functions such as getnetbyname and getnetbyaddr. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weak...
Analyze CVE-2002-1551 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflow in nslookup in IBM AIX may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2004-0520 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in mime.php for SquirrelMail before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary HTML and script via the content-type mail header, as demonstrated using read_body.php. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-0899 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Network Tools 0.2 for PHP-Nuke allows remote attackers to execute commands on the server via shell metacharacters in the $hostinput variable. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-0279 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflow in sudo earlier than 1.6.3p6 allows local users to gain root privileges. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-0272 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflows in mpg321 before 0.2.9 allows local and possibly remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long URL to (1) a command line option, (2) an HTTP request, or (3) an FTP request. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Summarize the security research: HackWorld: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents on Exploiting Web Application Vulnerabilities
Web applications are prime targets for cyberattacks as gateways to critical services and sensitive data. Traditional penetration testing is costly and expertise-intensive, making it difficult to scale with the growing web ecosystem. While language model agents show promise in cybersecurity, modern web applications dema...
Analyze CVE-2004-1795 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Info Touch Surfnet kiosk allows local users to access the underlying filesystem via a 'file://' URI. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0442 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Qpopper 2.53 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a formatting string in the From: header, which is processed by the euidl command. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1214 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The asynchronous I/O facility in 4.4 BSD kernel does not check user credentials when setting the recipient of I/O notification, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by using certain ioctl and fcntl calls to cause the signal to be sent to an arbitrary process ID. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: CWE-255
Analyze CVE-1999-1148 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
FTP service in IIS 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via many passive (PASV) connections at the same time. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-1551 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Linux kernel 2.2.19 enables CAP_SYS_RESOURCE for setuid processes, which allows local users to exceed disk quota restrictions during execution of setuid programs. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-1579 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The timed program (in.timed) in UnixWare 7 and OpenUnix 8.0.0 does not properly terminate certain strings with a null, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Summarize the security research: Learning About Simulated Adversaries from Human Defenders using Interactive Cyber-Defense Games
Given the increase in cybercrime, cybersecurity analysts (i.e. Defenders) are in high demand. Defenders must monitor an organization's network to evaluate threats and potential breaches into the network. Adversary simulation is commonly used to test defenders' performance against known threats to organizations. However...
Analyze CVE-2003-1156 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.4.2 through 1.4.2_02 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) unpack.log, as created by the unpack program, or (2) .mailcap1 and .mime.types1, as created by the RPM program. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Othe...
Analyze CVE-2001-0982 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM Tivoli WebSEAL Policy Director 3.01 through 3.7.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or directories via encoded .. (dot dot) sequences containing "%2e" strings. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-1048 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
AWOL PHP script allows remote attackers to include arbitrary files from remote web sites via an HTTP request that sets the includedir variable. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1304 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Vulnerability in login in SCO UNIX 4.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root access. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2004-1690 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web Server in DNS4Me 3.0.0.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0143 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The SSH protocol server sshd allows local users without shell access to redirect a TCP connection through a service that uses the standard system password database for authentication, such as POP or FTP. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-0045 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
slapd in OpenLDAP 2.0 through 2.0.19 allows local users, and anonymous users before 2.0.8, to conduct a "replace" action on access controls without any values, which causes OpenLDAP to delete non-mandatory attributes that would otherwise be protected by ACLs. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1591 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) server 4.0 SP4, without certain hotfixes released for SP4, does not require authentication credentials under certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication requirements, as demonstrated by connecting via Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0. Severity: ...
Analyze CVE-2002-1890 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
rhmask 1.0-9 in Red Hat Linux 7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the mask file. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-0373 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The default configuration of the Dr. Watson program in Windows NT and Windows 2000 generates user.dmp crash dump files with world-readable permissions, which could allow a local user to gain access to sensitive information. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-1461 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Directory traversal vulnerability in WebID in RSA Security SecurID 5.0 as used by ACE/Agent for Windows, Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows attackers to access restricted resources via URL-encoded (1) /.. or (2) \.. sequences. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-0522 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The permissions for a system-critical NIS+ table (e.g. passwd) are inappropriate. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-0642 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: None. Reason: this candidate is solely about a configuration that does not directly introduce security vulnerabilities, so it is more appropriate to cover under the Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE). Notes: the former description is: "A POP service ...
Analyze CVE-1999-1345 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Auto_FTP.pl script in Auto_FTP 0.2 uses the /tmp/ftp_tmp as a shared directory with insecure permissions, which allows local users to (1) send arbitrary files to the remote server by placing them in the directory, and (2) view files that are being transferred. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2004-1669 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MERAK Mail Server 7.4.5 with Icewarp Web Mail 5.2.7 and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) User name parameter to accountsettings.html or (2) Search string parameter to search.html. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness...
Analyze CVE-2004-1768 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The character converters in the Spamhunter and Language ID modules for Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.1 before patch 132 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages with the ISO-8859-10 character set, which is not recognized by the converters. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1116 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Vulnerability in runpriv in Indigo Magic System Administration subsystem of SGI IRIX 6.3 and 6.4 allows local users to gain root privileges. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0233 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
SuSE Linux IMAP server allows remote attackers to bypass IMAP authentication and gain privileges. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1453 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Internet Explorer 4 allows remote attackers (malicious web site operators) to read the contents of the clipboard via the Internet WebBrowser ActiveX object. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2003-0898 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
IBM DB2 7.2 before FixPak 10a, and earlier versions including 7.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on (1) db2job and (2) db2job2. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-0448 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The WebShield SMTP Management Tool version 4.5.44 does not properly restrict access to the management port when an IP address does not resolve to a hostname, which allows remote attackers to access the configuration via the GET_CONFIG command. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-2193 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in mojo.cgi for Mojo Mail 2.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the email parameter. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2000-1151 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Baxter IRC client in BeOS r5 pro and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via a message that contains a long URL. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-2261 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Sendmail 8.9.0 through 8.12.6 allows remote attackers to bypass relaying restrictions enforced by the 'check_relay' function by spoofing a blank DNS hostname. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: CWE-264
Analyze CVE-2002-0980 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The Web Folder component for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 writes an error message to a known location in the temporary folder, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by injecting it into the error message, then referring to the error message file via a mhtml: URL. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CW...
Analyze CVE-2003-1215 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
SQL injection vulnerability in groupcp.php for phpBB 2.0.6 and earlier allows group moderators to perform unauthorized activities via the sql_in parameter. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-0312 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Directory traversal vulnerability in Essentia Web Server 2.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a URL. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-1999-1415 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Vulnerability in /usr/bin/mail in DEC ULTRIX before 4.2 allows local users to gain privileges. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Summarize the security research: Fit and Vulnerable: Attacks and Defenses for a Health Monitoring Device
The fusion of social networks and wearable sensors is becoming increasingly popular, with systems like Fitbit automating the process of reporting and sharing user fitness data. In this paper we show that while compelling, the integration of health data into social networks is fraught with privacy and security vulnerabi...
Analyze CVE-1999-0124 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Vulnerabilities in UMN gopher and gopher+ versions 1.12 and 2.0x allow an intruder to read any files that can be accessed by the gopher daemon. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-0005 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Buffer overflow in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7.2480, 4.8.2616, and other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument in a game request (AddGame). Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2003-1108 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) implementation in Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise 5.0 Lx allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted INVITE messages, as demonstrated by the OUSPG PROTOS c07-sip test suite. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2001-1233 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
Netware Enterprise Web Server 5.1 running GroupWise WebAccess 5.5 with Novell Directory Services (NDS) enabled allows remote attackers to enumerate user names, group names and other system information by accessing ndsobj.nlm. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2002-0705 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
The Web Reports Server for SurfControl SuperScout WebFilter stores the "scwebusers" username and password file in a web-accessible directory, which allows remote attackers to obtain valid usernames and crack the passwords. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other
Analyze CVE-2004-0218 and explain its impact, attack vector, and remediation
isakmpd in OpenBSD 3.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an ISAKMP packet with a zero-length payload, as demonstrated by the Striker ISAKMP Protocol Test Suite. Severity: (CVSS: ). Weakness: NVD-CWE-Other