IBM Tivoli Policy Director WebSeal Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:3685

Info

IBM Tivoli Policy Director WebSeal Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3685
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE: CVE-2001-1191
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 11 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 09:06AM
Credit: This vulnerability was submitted to BugTraq by Matthew Lane <[email protected]> on December 11th, 2001.
Vulnerable: IBM Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director 3.8
- HP HP-UX 11.0
- IBM AIX 4.3.3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

IBM Tivoli Policy Director WebSeal Denial Of Service Vulnerability

WebSeal is the proxy component of the IBM Tivoli Policy Director. It is able to provide authentication and control web access by filtering HTTP requests.

WebSeal is prone to denial of service attacks. If a '%2e' is appended to the end of a web request, this will cause WebSeal to stop operating when it tries to process the URL.

It has been reported that this is related to the use of SSL junctions between the WebSeal component and web servers. The WebSeal component may fail when certain URLs are passed across this connection.

Exploit / POC

IBM Tivoli Policy Director WebSeal Denial Of Service Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited with a web browser.

Solution / Fix

IBM Tivoli Policy Director WebSeal Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
IBM has announced that this issue is resolved in IBM Tivoli Policy Director WebSEAL 3.8 Fixpack 1, available to registered customers at the following location:

https://www.tivoli.com/secure/support/patches/Tivoli_SecureWay_Policy_Director_WebSEAL_.html#3.8-PWS-0001

References

IBM Tivoli Policy Director WebSeal Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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