CVE-2007-2506

Progress Software Progress <9.1e - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2007-2506. PoCs published by Eelko Neven.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a denial-of-service vulnerability in WebSpeed by flooding the target with HTTP GET requests. It repeatedly connects to the specified site and page, sending requests without proper sanitization, leading to potential unresponsiveness.

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Eelko Neven · perldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29943

This exploit targets a denial-of-service vulnerability in WebSpeed by flooding the target with HTTP GET requests. It repeatedly connects to the specified site and page, sending requests without proper sanitization, leading to potential unresponsiveness.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: WebSpeed (version not specified)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Target IP/hostname and a valid page path
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Exploit, Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23778
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.ishare.nl/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467376/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/35541
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467375/100/0/threaded
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/25129

Scores

EPSS 0.0397
EPSS Percentile 89.1%

Details

Status published
Products (5)
progress/progress 9.1e
progress/webspeed 3.0
progress/webspeed 3.1a
progress/webspeed 3.1d
progress/webspeed 3.1e
Published May 04, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026