Avengers News System up to 2.11 ans.pl privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Avengers News System up to 2.11. Affected is an unknown function of the file ans.pl. Performing a manipulation of the argument p results in privileges management. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2002-0306. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Avengers News System up to 2.11. This affects some unknown functionality of the file ans.pl. The manipulation of the argument p with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

ans.pl in Avenger s News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the p (plugin) parameter.

The weakness was disclosed 05/31/2002 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2002-0306. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10875 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 10856 (Avenger's News System Remote Command Execution Vulnerability).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 1522.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (8256), Tenable (10875), SecurityFocus (BID 4149†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-2030†). The entry VDB-18238 is pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 10875

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Snort ID: 1522
Snort Message: SERVER-WEBAPP ans.pl attempt
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02/21/2002 🔍
05/31/2002 +99 days 🔍
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09/09/2003 +466 days 🔍
07/11/2014 +3958 days 🔍
09/20/2025 +4089 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2002-0306 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-0306
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-18237
X-Force: 8256
SecurityFocus: 4149 - Avenger's News System Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 2030 - Directory Traversal in Ans.pl in Avenger's News System <= 2.11, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/11/2014 14:07
Updated: 09/20/2025 05:09
Changes: 07/11/2014 14:07 (62), 05/12/2019 16:48 (1), 09/20/2025 05:09 (18)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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