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Dr_insane has discovered a vulnerability in Spinworks Application Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the web server and can be exploited by passing a dot as argument to the "sid" parameter (or any arbitrary parameter ending with "sid").

Example:
http://[host]:5002/?sid=.

Successful exploitation crashes the web server.

A problem was also reported in some of the included sample scripts.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 3.0 for Windows. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Filter traffic to the web server using a proxy server or firewall with URL filtering capabilities.
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Dr_insane

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