Inout Metasearch Engine Cookie Forgery Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	24199
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2007-2988
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 28 2007 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:37PM
Credit:	BlackHawk is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable:	Inout Scripts Inout Metasearch Engine 0
Not Vulnerable:

Inout Metasearch Engine Cookie Forgery Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

The Inout metasearch engine is prone to an authentication-bypass vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this issue to gain unauthorized access to services hosted on an affected computer.

Inout Metasearch Engine Cookie Forgery Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following exploit code is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/24189.php

Inout Metasearch Engine Cookie Forgery Remote 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 if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Inout Metasearch Engine Cookie Forgery Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

References:

• Inout Scripts Homepage (Inout Scripts)
  
• Inout Meta Searh engine Remote Code Execution (BlackHawk )