Digi-fx Digi-news 1.1 Authentication admin.php improper authentication

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Digi-fx Digi-news 1.1 and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the file admin.php of the component Authentication. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2003-0588. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Digi-fx Digi-news 1.1 and classified as very critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the file admin.php of the component Authentication. 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:

admin.php in Digi-news 1.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a cookie with the username set to the name of the administrator, which satisfies an improper condition in admin.php that does not require a correct password.

The weakness was presented 08/18/2003 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at marc.theaimsgroup.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2003-0588 since 07/17/2003. 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 of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/15/2018).

By approaching the search of inurl:admin.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.

See VDB-20724 for similar entry. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.8

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Exploitinginfo

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

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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

07/17/2003 🔍
08/18/2003 +32 days 🔍
08/18/2003 +0 days 🔍
08/14/2014 +4014 days 🔍
06/15/2018 +1401 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2003-0588 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0588
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-20723
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Entryinfo

Created: 08/15/2014 00:16
Updated: 06/15/2018 08:00
Changes: 08/15/2014 00:16 (43), 06/15/2018 08:00 (6)
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Cache ID: 216:F30:103

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