CVE-2013-6765

high

Published 2014-05-19 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

Description

OpenVAS Manager 3.0 before 3.0.7 and 4.0 before 4.0.4 allows remote attackers to bypass the OMP authentication restrictions and execute OMP commands via a crafted OMP request for version information, which causes the state to be set to CLIENT_AUTHENTIC, as demonstrated by the omp_xml_handle_end_element function in omp.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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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-34026 remote linux

EccE · 2014-07-10

OpenVAS Manager 4.0 - Authentication Bypass

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
openvas	openvas_manager	`4.0`
openvas	openvas_manager	`4.0.0`
openvas	openvas_manager	`4.0.1`
openvas	openvas_manager	`4.0.2`
openvas	openvas_manager	`4.0.3`
openvas	openvas_manager	`3.0`
openvas	openvas_manager	`3.0.0`
openvas	openvas_manager	`3.0.1`
openvas	openvas_manager	`3.0.2`
openvas	openvas_manager	`3.0.3`
openvas	openvas_manager	`3.0.4`
openvas	openvas_manager	`3.0.5`
openvas	openvas_manager	`3.0.6`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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