Invision Power Board Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:13797

Info

Invision Power Board Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13797
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2005-1816
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 28 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 02:56PM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Rapigator <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0.4
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0.3
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0.2
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0.1
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0 PF2
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0 PF1
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0 PDR3
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0 Alpha 3
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.3.1 Final
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.3 Final
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.3
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.3
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.2
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.1.2
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.1.1
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.0.1
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Invision Power Board Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Invision Power Board is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue can allow an authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges.

Specifically, non-root administrator can become part of the root administrator group without providing sufficient authentication credentials.

This can allow a non-root administrator to gain root administrator privileges including complete access to the application and the underlying database.

Invision Power Board versions 1.0 to 2.0.4 are affected by this issue.

Exploit / POC

Invision Power Board Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

Invision Power Board Privilege Escalation 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]>.

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Invision Power Board Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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