Multiple Products Forgotten Password Feature CAPTCHA Security Bypass Vulnerability

BID:28877

Info

Multiple Products Forgotten Password Feature CAPTCHA Security Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 28877
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2008-2020
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 21 2008 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2015 05:29PM
Credit: Michael Brooks
Vulnerable: WebZE WebZE 0.5.9
TorrentFlux TorrentFlux 2.3
phpMyBitTorrent phpMyBitTorrent 2.1
PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.0
PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 8.1
OpenDB OpenDB 1.5.0b4
Labgab Project Labgab Project 1.1
e107 e107 website system 0.7.11
123tkShop 123tkShop 0.9.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Multiple Products Forgotten Password Feature CAPTCHA Security Bypass Vulnerability

Multiple products are prone to a security-bypass vulnerability that occurs in the forgotten password feature.

An attacker can exploit this issue to gain access to user passwords of the affected application or perform other automated attacks.

The vulnerability occurs in the following products:

- PHP-Nuke 8.1 FINAL
- PHP Nuke 7.0
- 123tkshop 0.9.1
- phpMyBitTorrent 1.2.2
- torrentflux 2.3
- e107 0.7.11
- webZE 0.5.9
- Labgab Project 1.1

Exploit / POC

Multiple Products Forgotten Password Feature CAPTCHA Security Bypass Vulnerability

Attackers can exploit this issue using a browser.

The following exploit code is available:

Solution / Fix

Multiple Products Forgotten Password Feature CAPTCHA Security Bypass Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Multiple Products Forgotten Password Feature CAPTCHA Security Bypass Vulnerability

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