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TITLE:
Spinworks Application Server Web Server Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14579

VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/14579/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Spinworks Application Server 3.x
https://secunia.com/product/4776/

DESCRIPTION:
Dr_insane has discovered a vulnerability in Spinworks Application
Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the web server and can
be exploited by passing a dot as argument to the "sid" parameter (or
any arbitrary parameter ending with "sid").

Example:
https://[host]:5002/?sid=.

Successful exploitation crashes the web server.

A problem was also reported in some of the included sample scripts.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 3.0 for Windows.
Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Filter traffic to the web server using a proxy server or firewall
with URL filtering capabilities.

Always remove sample scripts.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dr_insane

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