Pimppa Open Database Access Vulnerability

BID:3752

Info

Pimppa Open Database Access Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3752
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 03 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 03 2001 12:00AM
Credit: Published in the Pimppa project Changelog on December 17, 2001.
Vulnerable: Pimppa Pimppa 0.5.4
Pimppa Pimppa 0.5.3
Pimppa Pimppa 0.5.2
Pimppa Pimppa 0.5.1
Pimppa Pimppa 0.5 a
Not Vulnerable: Pimppa Pimppa 0.5.5 a

Discussion

Pimppa Open Database Access Vulnerability

Pimppa is a collection of software designed to automatically extract binary files from various sources. Although initially created to strip binary files from usenet feeds, it is now able to process ftp and irc based servers. It requires a MySQL database.

The database tables used by Pimppa are owned by the MySQL user 'pimppa'. Earlier versions of Pimppa did not function correctly if a password was assigned to the 'pimppa' user. As a result, anyone with access to the MySQL database would be able to freely view and modify the data required by Pimppa.

Earlier versions of Pimppa may share this vulnerability.

Exploit / POC

Pimppa Open Database Access Vulnerability

No exploit code is required to take advantage of this issue.

Solution / Fix

Pimppa Open Database Access Vulnerability

Solution:
An updated version has been made available:


Pimppa Pimppa 0.5 a

Pimppa Pimppa 0.5.1

Pimppa Pimppa 0.5.2

Pimppa Pimppa 0.5.3

Pimppa Pimppa 0.5.4

References

Pimppa Open Database Access Vulnerability

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