Hosting Controller up to 6.0 privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Hosting Controller up to 6.0. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-3147. Moreover, an exploit is present. Adding more authentication is recommended. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Hosting Controller up to 6.0 (Hosting Control Software). This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Hosting Controller before 6.1 (aka Hotfix 3.2) allows remote authenticated attackers to gain host admin privileges, list all resellers, or change resellers passwords via unspecified vectors. NOTE: due to the lack of precise details, it is not clear whether this is related to a previously disclosed issue such as CVE-2005-1788.

The bug was discovered 06/20/2006. The weakness was disclosed 06/20/2006 by Soroush Dalili (Website). The advisory is shared at secunia.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-3147 since 06/22/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available 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 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21736 (Hosting Controller <= 6.1 Hotfix 3.1 Authenticated User Privilege Escalation), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses, running in the context l and relying on port 8887.

Upgrading to version 6.1 eliminates this vulnerability. It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding an authentication mechanism. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be adding authentication.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (27340), Exploit-DB (1987), Tenable (21736), SecurityFocus (BID 18565†) and OSVDB (26693†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 21736
Nessus Name: Hosting Controller <= 6.1 Hotfix 3.1 Authenticated User Privilege Escalation
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Recommended: Authentication
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Upgrade: Hosting Controller 6.1

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: secunia.com⛔
Researcher: Soroush Dalili
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-3147 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3147
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-30917
X-Force: 27340
SecurityFocus: 18565 - Hosting Controller Addreseller.ASP Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 20743 - Hosting Controller User Permission Verification Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 26693 - Hosting Controller Authenticated User Privilege Escalation
SecurityTracker: 1016444
Vulnerability Center: 12041 - Hosting Controller Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-2459

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 02:25 PM
Updated: 10/05/2024 03:35 PM
Changes: 03/12/2015 02:25 PM (86), 06/21/2019 09:57 AM (1), 10/05/2024 03:35 PM (18)
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