CVE-2007-2506

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-05-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

WebSpeed 3.x in OpenEdge 10.x in Progress Software Progress 9.1e, and certain other 9.x versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and daemon hang) via a messenger URL that invokes _edit.r with no additional parameters, as demonstrated by requests for cgiip.exe or wsisa.dll with WService=wsbroker1/_edit.r in the PATH_INFO.

Affected products

Progress: 9.1e
Progress Webspeed: 3.0, 3.1a, 3.1d, 3.1e

References

http://osvdb.org/35541
http://progress.atgnow.com/esprogress/resultDisplay.do?gotoLink=115&docType=1006&clusterName=CombinedCluster&contentId=12&groupId=3&answerGroup=1&score=1932&page=http%3A%2F%2Fprogress.atgnow.com%2Fesprogress%2Fdocs%2FSolutions%2FProgress%2FESERVER_P123694.xhtml&result=0&excerpt=P123694
http://secunia.com/advisories/25129
http://www.ishare.nl/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467375/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467376/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23778
http://osvdb.org/35541
http://progress.atgnow.com/esprogress/resultDisplay.do?gotoLink=115&docType=1006&clusterName=CombinedCluster&contentId=12&groupId=3&answerGroup=1&score=1932&page=http%3A%2F%2Fprogress.atgnow.com%2Fesprogress%2Fdocs%2FSolutions%2FProgress%2FESERVER_P123694.xhtml&result=0&excerpt=P123694
http://secunia.com/advisories/25129
http://www.ishare.nl/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467375/100/0/threaded

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