CVE-2013-6765

OpenVAS Manager 3.0-3.0.6 and 4.0-4.0.3 - Unauthenticated OMP Command Execution via Version Request

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2013-6765. PoCs published by EccE.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates an authentication bypass vulnerability in OpenVAS Manager 4.0 by sending unauthenticated OMP protocol commands over SSL. It retrieves version and slave information without valid credentials.

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by EccE · pythonremotelinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34026

This exploit demonstrates an authentication bypass vulnerability in OpenVAS Manager 4.0 by sending unauthenticated OMP protocol commands over SSL. It retrieves version and slave information without valid credentials.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Auth Bypass
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: OpenVAS Manager 4.0
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Network access to OpenVAS Manager on TCP/9390 · SSL certificate for the server
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/10/2
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
http://www.openvas.org/OVSA20131108.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0727
EPSS Percentile 93.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (13)
openvas/openvas_manager 4.0 beta1 (6 CPE variants)
openvas/openvas_manager 4.0.0
openvas/openvas_manager 4.0.1
openvas/openvas_manager 4.0.2
openvas/openvas_manager 4.0.3
openvas/openvas_manager 3.0 beta1 (9 CPE variants)
openvas/openvas_manager 3.0.0
openvas/openvas_manager 3.0.1
openvas/openvas_manager 3.0.2
openvas/openvas_manager 3.0.3
... and 3 more
Published May 19, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026