Macromedia JRun Administrative Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

BID:5118

Info

Macromedia JRun Administrative Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5118
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 28 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 28 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to Matt Moore <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Macromedia JRun 4.0
- Microsoft IIS 5.1
- Microsoft IIS 5.0
- Microsoft IIS 4.0
Macromedia JRun 3.1
- IBM AIX 4.3
- IBM AIX 4.2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
- Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
- Redhat Linux 6.0 sparc
- Redhat Linux 6.0 alpha
- Redhat Linux 6.0
- SGI IRIX 6.5
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0
Macromedia JRun 3.0
- IBM AIX 4.3
- IBM AIX 4.2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
- Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
- Redhat Linux 6.0 sparc
- Redhat Linux 6.0
- SGI IRIX 6.5
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Macromedia JRun Administrative Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Macromedia JRun is prone to an issue which may allow remote attackers to bypass the authentication page for the admin server. This may be exploited by adding an extraneous '/' to a request for the administrative authentication page.

Exploit / POC

Macromedia JRun Administrative Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

This issue may be exploited with a web browser. The following example was submitted:

http://JRun-Server:8000//welcome.jsp?&action=stop&server=default

will shutdown the 'default' JRun server instance on port 8100. Other
administrative functions can also be accessed.

References

Macromedia JRun Administrative Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

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