Magic News Plus Administrator Password Change Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	16182
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 09 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 09 2006 12:00AM
Credit:	cijfer <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	peercast.org PeerCast 1.0.3
Not Vulnerable:

Magic News Plus Administrator Password Change Vulnerability

Magic News Plus is prone to a vulnerability regarding the administrator password. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly verify user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this issue to change the administrator password and gain access to the affected application as the administrator. This may facilitate a compromise of the underlying system; other attacks are also possible.

This issue is reported to affect version 1.0.3; earlier versions may also be vulnerable.

Magic News Plus Administrator Password Change Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof of concept exploit is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/MagicNewsPlus-pw-change.pl

Magic News Plus Administrator Password Change 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]>.

Magic News Plus Administrator Password Change Vulnerability

References:

• Magic News Plus Homepage (Reamday Enterprises)