Xigla Absolute Poll Manager XE 4.1 improper authentication

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A vulnerability was found in Xigla Absolute Poll Manager XE 4.1 (Survey Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. 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:

Xigla Software Absolute Poll Manager XE 4.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access by setting a cookie to a certain value.

The weakness was disclosed 07/14/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-6860 since 07/14/2009. 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.

A public exploit has been developed by Hakxer and been published before and not just 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 257 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 (46242) and Exploit-DB (6883).

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Class: Improper authentication
CWE: CWE-287
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
Author: Hakxer
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10/30/2008 🔍
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03/17/2015 +2072 days 🔍
12/14/2017 +1003 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-6860 (🔍)
X-Force: 46242 - Absolute Poll Manager XE xlaAPM%5Fusr cookie authentication bypass
SecurityFocus: 32005

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 12/14/2017 08:28
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (47), 12/14/2017 08:28 (13)
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