[NEWS] WebSEAL Vulnerable to a DoS Attack (%2E)

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Date: 12/28/01


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  WebSEAL Vulnerable to a DoS Attack (%2E)
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SUMMARY

A security vulnerability in WebSEAL allows remote attackers to cause the
product to crash by appending an HTML encoded character '.' (%2E) to the
requested URL.

DETAILS

Vulnerable systems:
WebSEAL box version 3.8

Appending a %2e to the URL, causes the WebSEAL application to die.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by
<mailto:MatthewL@Janusassociates.com> Matthew Lane.

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