CVE-2010-3899
Description
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.x and 9.x performs web crawls with an unlimited recursion depth, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted series of documents.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
IBM OmniFind Crawler - Denial of Service
References
- http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15476
- http://www.osvdb.org/69078
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514688/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44740
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2933
- http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15476
- http://www.osvdb.org/69078
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514688/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44740
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2933
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.