PT-2009-5993 · Websense · Websense Personal Email Manager+1

Nikolas Sotiriu · Published 2009-10-22 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2009-3749

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Websense Personal Email Manager versions prior to 7.1 Hotfix 4 Websense Email Security versions prior to 7.1 Hotfix 4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a HTTP GET request to TCP port 8181 and closing the socket before the service can send a response. This is related to the Web Administrator service.

Recommendations For Websense Personal Email Manager versions prior to 7.1 Hotfix 4, apply Hotfix 4 to resolve the issue. For Websense Email Security versions prior to 7.1 Hotfix 4, apply Hotfix 4 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to TCP port 8181 to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3749

Affected Products

Websense Email Security

Websense Personal Email Manager

References · 9

• 🔥 http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/36740 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/9980 · Exploit
• http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37091 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3749 · Security Note
• http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12 · Patch
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2987 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/507329/100/0/threaded · Note