CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-6766

Improper Authentication

Published: May 19, 2014 | Modified: May 20, 2014
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

OpenVAS Administrator 1.2 before 1.2.2 and 1.3 before 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the OAP authentication restrictions and execute OAP commands via a crafted OAP request for version information, which causes the state to be set to CLIENT_AUTHENTIC.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openvas_administrator Openvas 1.2-rc1 (including) 1.2-rc1 (including)
Openvas_administrator Openvas 1.2.0 (including) 1.2.0 (including)
Openvas_administrator Openvas 1.2.1 (including) 1.2.1 (including)
Openvas_administrator Openvas 1.3-beta1 (including) 1.3-beta1 (including)
Openvas_administrator Openvas 1.3-rc1 (including) 1.3-rc1 (including)
Openvas_administrator Openvas 1.3.0 (including) 1.3.0 (including)
Openvas_administrator Openvas 1.3.1 (including) 1.3.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References