Gianluca Baldo PHPAuction 1.2/1.3/2.0/2.1 login.php action privileges management

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Gianluca Baldo PHPAuction 1.2/1.3/2.0/2.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file login.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument action with the input insert results in privileges management. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2002-0995. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Gianluca Baldo PHPAuction 1.2/1.3/2.0/2.1 (Auction Software). This affects some unknown functionality of the file login.php. The manipulation of the argument action with the input value insert 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:

login.php for PHPAuction allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a direct call to login.php with the action parameter set to "insert," which adds the provided username to the adminUsers table.

The weakness was shared 10/04/2002 (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2002-0995. 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 and a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:login.php 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 (9462), Exploit-DB (21590) and SecurityFocus (BID 5141†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Auction Software

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• Gianluca Baldo

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• PHPAuction

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• 1.2
• 1.3
• 2.0
• 2.1

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