NetWin WebNEWS Default Account Vulnerability

BID:4156

Info

NetWin WebNEWS Default Account Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4156
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2002-0310
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 21 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 10:56AM
Credit: This vulnerability was submitted to BugTraq on February 21st, 2002 by Shai <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: NetWin WebNEWS 1.1 k
NetWin WebNEWS 1.1 j
NetWin WebNEWS 1.1 i
NetWin WebNEWS 1.1 h
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

NetWin WebNEWS Default Account Vulnerability

WebNEWS is a server product designed to provide access to news groups through a web interface. It is able to connect to any standard NNTP server, and is available for Windows, BSD, Linux and most Unix systems.

WebNEWS contains a number of default accounts which have been hard-coded into the program.

The following default accounts exist (username/password):

testweb/newstest, alwn3845/imaptest, alwi3845/wtest3452, testweb2/wtest4879

A remote attacker who is aware of these default accounts may use them to gain unauthorized access to the WebNEWS service.

Exploit / POC

NetWin WebNEWS Default Account Vulnerability

There is no exploit required.

References

NetWin WebNEWS Default Account Vulnerability

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