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Site News Authentication Error May Let Local Users Add Messages Sep 05 2004 08:32PM
Jérôme ATHIAS (jerome athias caramail com)


SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1011159

SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1011159

Date: Sep 5 2004

Impact: Modification of user information

Exploit Included: Yes

Version(s): 1.1

Description: A vulnerability was reported in Site News. A local user can add or edit news items.

LwB Security Team reported that a local user can invoke the script to add or edit messages without having to authenticate as an administrator.

A demonstration exploit is provided:

sitenews.cgi?update\?oldsubject=OLD_SUBJ&subject=NEW_SUBJ&name=ANY_NAME&
issue=ISSUE&message=MESSAGE

Impact: A local user can add or edit messages on Site News.

Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.

Vendor URL: www.utilmind.com/scripts/sitenews.html (Links to External Site)

Cause: Authentication error

Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)

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