phpLinkat SQL Injection and Cookie Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

BID:30386

Info

phpLinkat SQL Injection and Cookie Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 30386
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-3407
CVE-2008-3406
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 26 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 06 2016 02:17PM
Credit: Encrypt3d.M!nd
Vulnerable: phpLinkat phpLinkat 0.1 .0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

phpLinkat SQL Injection and Cookie Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

phpLinkat is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query. The application is also vulnerable to an authentication-bypass vulnerability because it fails to adequately verify user-supplied input used for cookie-based authentication.

Exploiting the SQL-injection issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. The attacker could leverage the authentication-bypass vulnerability to gain administrative access to the affected application.

phpLinkat 0.1 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

phpLinkat SQL Injection and Cookie Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

Attackers can use a browser to exploit these issues.

The following URI is available:

http://www.example.com/showcat.php?catid=666%20union%20select%20concat(version(),0x3a,database(),0x3a,user()),2,3,4,5,6/*

Solution / Fix

phpLinkat SQL Injection and Cookie Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

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

phpLinkat SQL Injection and Cookie Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

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