Gallery Unspecified Security Bypass Vulnerability

BID:32440

Info

Gallery Unspecified Security Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 32440
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-5296
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 21 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 16 2015 05:51PM
Credit: John Hisdock
Vulnerable: Gallery Gallery 1.5.9
Gallery Gallery 1.5.8 -svn-b34
Not Vulnerable: Gallery Gallery 1.5.10

Discussion

Gallery Unspecified Security Bypass Vulnerability

Gallery is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability that occurs when handling certain cookies.

An attacker can exploit this issue to bypass certain security restrictions and gain administrative access to the application.

This issue was introduced in Gallery 1.5.8-svn-b34 and remained in the code until Gallery 1.5.10.

Exploit / POC

Gallery Unspecified Security Bypass Vulnerability

An attacker can use a browser to exploit this issue.

Solution / Fix

Gallery Unspecified Security Bypass Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for more information.

References

Gallery Unspecified Security Bypass Vulnerability

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