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CVE-2013-6765

OpenVAS Manager 3.0 before 3.0.7 and 4.0 before 4.0.4 allows remote attackers to bypass the OMP authentication restrictions and execute OMP commands via a crafted OMP request for version information, which causes the state to be set to CLIENT_AUTHENTIC, as demonstrated by the omp_xml_handle_end_element function in omp.c.

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Severity

N/A

EPSS

Probability of exploitation (next 30 days): 0.0454 (4.5%)
Percentile: 89.2%
EPSS: 2026-05-06

Affects

openvas:openvas_manager

Technical description

OpenVAS Manager 3.0 before 3.0.7 and 4.0 before 4.0.4 allows remote attackers to bypass the OMP authentication restrictions and execute OMP commands via a crafted OMP request for version information, which causes the state to be set to CLIENT_AUTHENTIC, as demonstrated by the omp_xml_handle_end_element function in omp.c.

Published: 5/19/2014, 2:55:09 PM
Last modified: 5/6/2026, 10:30:45 PM

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