A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in FTP Admin 0.1.0. This issue affects an unknown function of the file index.php. The manipulation of the argument loggedin with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

index.php in FTP Admin 0.1.0 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain administrative access via a loggedin parameter with a value of true, as demonstrated by adding a user account.

The weakness was published 12/04/2007 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2007-6234 since 12/04/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/12/2024).

A public exploit has been developed by Omni and been published before and not just after the advisory. 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 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:index.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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 databases at X-Force (38782), Exploit-DB (4681) and Secunia (SA27875†). Similar entries are available at VDB-39934 and VDB-39933.

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