CVE-2013-6766

high
Published 2014-05-19 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openvas.org/OVSA20131108.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openvasopenvas_administrator1.2
openvasopenvas_administrator1.2.0
openvasopenvas_administrator1.2.1
openvasopenvas_administrator1.3
openvasopenvas_administrator1.3.0
openvasopenvas_administrator1.3.1

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.