A vulnerability was found in Ccs Network Hyperseek Search Engine 2000. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file admin.cgi. The manipulation of the argument edit_file with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Hyperseek allows remote attackers to modify the hyperseek configuration by directly calling the admin.cgi program with an edit_file action parameter.

The weakness was released 02/19/1999 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-1255. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (1914).

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• Ccs Network

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• Hyperseek Search Engine

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• 2000

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