PHPSlash Arbitrary Account Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:14189

Info

PHPSlash Arbitrary Account Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 14189
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 07 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 07 2005 12:00AM
Credit: [email protected] is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.8
PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.7.2
PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.7.1
PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.6.1
PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.5.3 2
Not Vulnerable: PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.8.1

Discussion

PHPSlash Arbitrary Account Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

phpSlash is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue is due to a design error in the application which utilizes unsafe variables when updating account profile data.

Successful exploitation would result in an attacker gaining control of arbitrary accounts of the affected application. Hijacking of an administrator account could aid in further attacks against the underlying system.

The vendor has addressed this issue in phpSlash 0.8.1; earlier versions are reported vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

PHPSlash Arbitrary Account Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

PHPSlash Arbitrary Account Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has addressed this issue in phpSlash version 0.8.1:


PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.5.3 2

PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.6.1

PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.7.1

PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.7.2

PHPSlash PHPSlash 0.8

References

PHPSlash Arbitrary Account Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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