A vulnerability was found in Merlix Educate Server (affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the file config.asp. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Merlix Educate Server allows remote attackers to bypass intended security restrictions and obtain sensitive information via a direct request to (1) config.asp and (2) users.asp.

The weakness was disclosed 07/23/2009 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-6870 since 07/23/2009. 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 as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed by ZoRLu 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 230 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:config.asp 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 (47107) and Exploit-DB (7348). The entry 49128 is pretty similar.

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