CVE-2004-1973 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

DiGi Web Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP GET request that contains a large number of / (slash) characters, which consumes resources when DiGi converts the slashes to \ (backslash) characters.

Published: 2005-05-10

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 8.4% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:digi:www_server:compieuw:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:digi:www_server:compieuw:beta1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:digi:www_server:compieuw:beta2::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.08443.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108311170018203&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11490
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Apr/1009957.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=234261
http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/DiGiWwwServerC1-adv.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/5702
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10228
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15987

History

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Subscriptions

Digi Www Server

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-05-10T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:07:49.137Z

Reserved: 2005-05-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-1973

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-04-27T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-1973

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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