PT-2011-1355 · Goahead · Goahead Web Server

Published 2011-12-27 · Updated 2011-12-28 · CVE-2009-5111

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 GoAhead WebServer (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a daemon outage, via partial HTTP requests. This can be demonstrated using tools like Slowloris, which can send partial HTTP requests to the server.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-5111

Affected Products

Goahead Web Server

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-5111 · Security Note
• http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris · Note