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A vulnerability was found in Marc Melvin A+ PHP Scripts News Management System (Programming Language Software) (affected version not known). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality. 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. The summary by CVE is:

A+ PHP Scripts News Management System (NMS) allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges by setting the mobsuser and mobspass cookies to 1.

The weakness was shared 04/08/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-6667 since 04/07/2009. 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 are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by Virangar Security and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 286 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 databases at X-Force (43431) and Exploit-DB (5954).

Productinfo

Type

• Programming Language Software

Vendor

• Marc Melvin

Name

• A+ PHP Scripts News Management System

CPE 2.3info

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.3
VulDB Vector: 🔍
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Vector	Complexity	Authentication	Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Improper authentication
CWE: CWE-287
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
Author: Virangar Security
Download: 🔍

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

06/26/2008 🔍
06/26/2008 +0 days 🔍
06/26/2008 +0 days 🔍
04/07/2009 +285 days 🔍
04/08/2009 +1 days 🔍
04/08/2009 +0 days 🔍
03/17/2015 +2169 days 🔍
12/07/2017 +996 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-6667 (🔍)
X-Force: 43431 - News Management System session security bypass
SecurityFocus: 29977 - A+ PHP Scripts News Management System Cookie Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 12/07/2017 08:29
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (53), 12/07/2017 08:29 (7)
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