Maian Weblog 3.1/4.0 improper authentication

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A vulnerability was found in Maian Weblog 3.1/4.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation 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. CVE summarizes:

admin/index.php in Maian Weblog 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access by sending an arbitrary weblog_cookie cookie.

The bug was discovered 07/13/2008. The weakness was released 07/25/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at maianscriptworld.co.uk. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-3318 since 07/25/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

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 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 33483 (Maian Scripts Cookie Manipulation Authentication 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.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (43751), Exploit-DB (6064), Tenable (33483), SecurityFocus (BID 30209†) and OSVDB (47034†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-43380, VDB-43379, VDB-43378 and VDB-43377.

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Class: Improper authentication
CWE: CWE-287
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Nessus ID: 33483
Nessus Name: Maian Scripts Cookie Manipulation Authentication Bypass
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Advisory: maianscriptworld.co.uk
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-3318 (🔍)
X-Force: 43751
SecurityFocus: 30209 - Maian Weblog 'weblog_cookie' Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia: 30943
OSVDB: 47034 - Maian Weblog - 'weblog_cookie' Authentication Bypass Issue
Vulnerability Center: 18926 - Maian Weblog Index.php Improper Authentication Checks Allow Security Bypass, High

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/17/2015 12:19 PM
Updated: 11/01/2024 10:29 PM
Changes: 03/17/2015 12:19 PM (64), 08/14/2019 09:36 PM (11), 11/01/2024 10:29 PM (19)
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