PHP-Nuke Delete God Admin Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

BID:10861

Info

PHP-Nuke Delete God Admin Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 10861
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 04 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 04 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability is credited to ahmad muammar <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 7.3
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 7.2
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 7.1
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 7.0 FINAL
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 7.0
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.9
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.7
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.6
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5 RC3
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5 RC2
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5 RC1
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5 FINAL
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5 BETA 1
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.0
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.6
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.5
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.4
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.3.1
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.2 a
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.2
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.1
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.0.1
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.0
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 4.4.1 a
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 4.4
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 4.3
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 4.0
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 3.0
- Linux kernel 2.2
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 2.5
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 1.0
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 0.726 -3
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 0.75 -RC3
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

PHP-Nuke Delete God Admin Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

PHP-Nuke is reported prone to an access control bypass vulnerability.

Reports indicate that a PHP-Nuke superuser may bypass access controls and privilege restrictions, to delete the PHP-Nuke "God Admin" account. This may be accomplished by making a specially crafted request for the "admin.php" script.

Exploit / POC

PHP-Nuke Delete God Admin Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

The following example is available:

http://www.example.com/phpnuke/admin.php?op=deladmin2&del_aid=dudul

Where "dudul" is the name of the target "God Admin" account.

Solution / Fix

PHP-Nuke Delete God Admin Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

PHP-Nuke Delete God Admin Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

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