CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0908

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
9.74%

95th percentile - higher than 95% of all known CVEs

Summary

BrowseGate 2.80 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via long Authorization or Referer MIME headers in the HTTP request.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely crash the service or take control of the server by executing arbitrary commands. This can lead to system compromise and data loss.

Recommendation

Update BrowseGate to the latest version that fixes this vulnerability. If update is not possible, consider using alternative proxy software.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

BrowseGate 2.80 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via long Authorization or Referer MIME headers in the HTTP request.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS