Newsscript Administrative Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

BID:7705

Info

Newsscript Administrative Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7705
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 27 2003 12:00AM
Updated: May 27 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to Peter Winter-Smith.
Vulnerable: Newsscript Newsscript 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Newsscript Administrative Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported that could enable a member of the news system to create and access an administrative account. This is due to insufficient validation of data supplied to account editing input fields of Newsscript.

Exploit / POC

Newsscript Administrative Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

This may be exploited with a web browser. The member may add a database delimiter when changing their name in addition to a new privilege level, for example:

Peter<~>2

References

Newsscript Administrative Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

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