YaBB SE Cookie Security Bypass Vulnerability

BID:27414

Info

YaBB SE Cookie Security Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 27414
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 22 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 23 2008 10:38PM
Credit: 1dt.w0lf discovered this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: YaBB SE YaBB SE 1.5.5 b
YaBB SE YaBB SE 1.5.5
YaBB SE YaBB SE 1.5.4
YaBB SE YaBB SE 1.5.3
YaBB SE YaBB SE 1.5.2
YaBB SE YaBB SE 1.5.1
YaBB SE YaBB SE 1.5 .1 RC1
YaBB SE YaBB SE 1.5 .0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

YaBB SE Cookie Security Bypass Vulnerability

YaBB SE is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability because it fails to properly validate user credentials before performing certain actions.

Exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information, compromise the application, and execute arbitrary script code in the context of webserver process; other attacks are also possible.

This issue affects YaBB SE 1.5.5 and prior versions.

Exploit / POC

YaBB SE Cookie Security Bypass Vulnerability

The following exploit is available:

Solution / Fix

YaBB SE Cookie Security 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].

References

YaBB SE Cookie Security Bypass Vulnerability

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