Overview
Talentsoft's Web+ development platform contains a buffer overflow in a component that also installs by default into all web sites produced by Web+.
Description
Talentsoft Web+ is a set of tools for accelerated web site development. A component of Web+ named "webpsvc.exe" contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This component is used by the Web+ CGI program "webplus.exe," which is installed by default in the cgi-bin directory when Web+ is used to build a web site. |
Impact
By requesting a specially crafted URI from a site running Web+, an attacker can execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running webpsvc.exe, typically the SYSTEM user. |
Solution
Apply a patch from your vendor See the following document for more details: |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Mark Litchfield for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2002-0449 |
| Severity Metric: | 4.56 |
| Date Public: | 2002-03-05 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-08-05 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2002-08-05 15:25 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 7 |