CVE-2007-0138
formbankcgi.exe in Fersch Formbankserver 1.9, when the PATH_INFO begins with (1) AbfrageForm or (2) EingabeForm, allows remote attackers…
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Description
formbankcgi.exe in Fersch Formbankserver 1.9, when the PATH_INFO begins with (1) AbfrageForm or (2) EingabeForm, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via multiple requests containing many /../ sequences in the Name parameter. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Formbankserver 1.9 - 'Name' Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3056dos, windowspublished 31 Dec 2006Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- 32546 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- formbankserver-formbank-dos(31216) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 23539 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-0142 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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