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CVE-2013-6766

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-05-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

OpenVAS Administrator 1.2 before 1.2.2 and 1.3 before 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the OAP authentication restrictions and execute OAP commands via a crafted OAP request for version information, which causes the state to be set to CLIENT_AUTHENTIC.

Affected products

• Openvas Administrator: 1.2-rc1, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3-beta1, 1.3-rc1, 1.3.0 (+1)

References

• http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-announce/2013-November/000157.html
• http://www.openvas.org/OVSA20131108.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/10/2
• http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-announce/2013-November/000157.html
• http://www.openvas.org/OVSA20131108.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/10/2

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