CVE-2013-6766
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
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.
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.
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.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openvas | openvas_administrator | 1.2 | |
| openvas | openvas_administrator | 1.2.0 | |
| openvas | openvas_administrator | 1.2.1 | |
| openvas | openvas_administrator | 1.3 | |
| openvas | openvas_administrator | 1.3.0 | |
| openvas | openvas_administrator | 1.3.1 | |
References
- http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-announce/2013-November/000157.html
- http://www.openvas.org/OVSA20131108.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/10/2
- http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-announce/2013-November/000157.html
- http://www.openvas.org/OVSA20131108.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/10/2
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.