TWiki Homepage Creation Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:18506

CVE-2006-2942 |

Info

TWiki Homepage Creation Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 18506
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2006-2942
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 19 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 20 2006 05:00PM
Credit: The vendor credits Harald Jörg with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: TWiki TWiki 4.0.2
TWiki TWiki 4.0.1
TWiki TWiki 0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

TWiki Homepage Creation Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

TWiki is prone to a vulnerability that could permit privilege escalation. This issue is due to a design error in the application; it fails to properly reset security settings.

An attacker with a valid account can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges to that of an administrator of the application. This may permit the attacker to alter site content; other attacks are also possible.

Exploit / POC

TWiki Homepage Creation Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited through a web client.

Solution / Fix

TWiki Homepage Creation Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released a hotfix for all released versions of TWiki 4.0.X; please see the reference section for details.


TWiki TWiki 0

TWiki TWiki 4.0.1

TWiki TWiki 4.0.2

References

TWiki Homepage Creation Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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