[UNIX] TowerBlog Administrative Authentication Bypassing
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The following security advisory is sent to the securiteam mailing list, and can be found at the SecuriTeam web site: http://www.securiteam.com - - promotion The SecuriTeam alerts list - Free, Accurate, Independent. Get your security news from a reliable source. http://www.securiteam.com/mailinglist.html - - - - - - - - - TowerBlog Administrative Authentication Bypassing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUMMARY <http://tower.hybryd.org/?x=home> TowerBlog is, in short, a "single user web-log (or web journal if you will) content management system, aka CMS". Due to bad coding practices a remote attacker can cause the TowerBlog to think that an administrator is accessing the system and grant him administrative privileges to the blog, this without having to know the username and password of the administrator. DETAILS Vulnerable Systems: * TowerBlog version 0.6 and prior By accessing the TowerBlog system with a cookie named TowerBlog_LoggedIn whose value has been set to 1 a remote user can impersonate an administrator of the blog system. Vendor Status: Vendor has been informed, as of writing of this advisory he plans on not fixing this problem as he lost interest in continuing the development of the product. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The information has been provided by <mailto:[email protected]> Noam Rathaus. ======================================== This bulletin is sent to members of the SecuriTeam mailing list. To unsubscribe from the list, send mail with an empty subject line and body to: [email protected] In order to subscribe to the mailing list, simply forward this email to: [email protected] ==================== ==================== DISCLAIMER: The information in this bulletin is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. In no event shall we be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages.