Hosting Controller up to 6.1 Login addsubsite.asp Remote Code Execution

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A vulnerability was found in Hosting Controller up to 6.1 (Hosting Control Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the file addsubsite.asp of the component Login. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote code execution vulnerability. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Hosting Controller 6.1 Hotfix 1.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to register arbitrary users via a direct request to addsubsite.asp with the loginname and password parameters set.

The bug was discovered 01/02/2005. The weakness was released 05/05/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared at isun.shabgard.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-1654 since 05/18/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 123 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:addsubsite.asp it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18363 (Hosting Controller addsubsite.asp Security Bypass), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (20466), Tenable (18363) and Exploit-DB (979).

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Class: Remote Code Execution
CWE: Unknown
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Local: No
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Access: Public
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Nessus ID: 18363
Nessus Name: Hosting Controller addsubsite.asp Security Bypass
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: isun.shabgard.org
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-1654 (🔍)
X-Force: 20466
Vulnerability Center: 8254 - Hosting Controller 6.1 Hotfix 1.9 Allows Registering Arbitrary Users via addsubsite.asp, High
SecurityFocus: 13531 - Hosting Controller Unauthorized Account Registration Vulnerability
Secunia: 15271 - Hosting Controller "addsubsite.asp" Security Bypass, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 16190 - Hosting Controller addsubsite.asp Account Creation Security Bypass

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 06/02/2019 09:42
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (73), 06/02/2019 09:42 (5)
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