CVE-2007-2506: Progress

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Progress Progress: version 9.1e only
• Progress Webspeed: version 3.0 only; version 3.1a only; version 3.1d only; version 3.1e only

Published 2007-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.