PT-2009-2867 · Free Download Manager Team · Free Download Manager

Praveen Darshanam · Published 2009-02-03 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2009-0183

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Free Download Manager versions 2.5 Build 758 through 3.0 Build 844

Description The issue is a stack-based buffer overflow in the Remote Control Server of Free Download Manager, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long Authorization header in an HTTP request to the "/api/v1/login" API endpoint, by exploiting the username and password variables.

Recommendations For Free Download Manager versions 2.5 Build 758 through 3.0 Build 844, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-0183

Affected Products

Free Download Manager

References · 10

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/http/fdm_auth_header.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/7986 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/16777 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33524 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0183 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-3 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/33554 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0302 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/51745 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/500604/100/0/threaded · Note