CVE-2007-2726 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the application by sending RSS feeds with malformed pubDate strings, affecting users of the BitsCast library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-2726?
CVE-2007-2726 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 May 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
BitsCast 0.13.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an RSS 2.0 feed item with certain invalid strings in a pubDate element, as demonstrated by repeated "../A" or "A/../" patterns.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-2726?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Bitscast Bitscast.
How do I fix CVE-2007-2726?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-2726 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2007-2726 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-2726 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-563c-38v4-f6vp.