A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in CuteNews 1.3.6 (Content Management System). Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

the documentation for cutenews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions which allows local users to insert false news delete news and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact.

The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2004 by e0r (Website). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-2615 since 12/04/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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 (17161).

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• CuteNews

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• 1.3.6

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