PAFaq Database Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	13999
Class:	Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jun 20 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 20 2005 12:00AM
Credit:	James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	PHP Arena paFaq beta4
Not Vulnerable:

PAFaq Database Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

paFaq is prone to an unauthorized access vulnerability regarding the database. This issue is a result of the application failing to perform access validation on the 'backup.php' script. A remote unauthenticated user can invoke the script and retrieve a complete backup of the application database.

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to authenticate to the application using a retrieved administrator username and password hash.

PAFaq Database Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following exploit will retrieve the database, authenticate to the application, and create a new valid administrator account:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/paFaq-add-admin-poc.pl

PAFaq Database Unauthorized Access 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]>.

PAFaq Database Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

References:

• paFaq Homepage (PHP Arena)
  
• paFaq Multiple Vulnerabilities (GulfTech Security Research )