News Manager Lite 2.5 ADMIN improper authentication

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in News Manager Lite 2.5. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation of the argument ADMIN leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-1847. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in News Manager Lite 2.5. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument ADMIN 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:

News Manager Lite 2.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges by setting the ADMIN parameter in the NEWS_LOGIN cookie.

The weakness was shared 03/20/2004 by Manuel Lopez (Website). The advisory is available at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1847 since 05/04/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15550), Exploit-DB (23863), SecurityFocus (BID 9935†), Secunia (SA11180†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1009507†). The entries VDB-21673, VDB-22933, VDB-81967 and VDB-81968 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.6

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.6
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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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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Timelineinfo

03/20/2004 🔍
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05/04/2005 +408 days 🔍
10/15/2014 +3451 days 🔍
07/21/2024 +3567 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: Manuel Lopez
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-1847 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1847
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-21674
X-Force: 15550 - News Manager Lite administrative session allows unauthorized access
SecurityFocus: 9935 - Expinion.net News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 11180 - News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
SecurityTracker: 1009507 - Expinion News Manager Authentication Flaw Lets Remote Users Gain Administrator Access

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

Created: 10/15/2014 17:00
Updated: 07/21/2024 21:00
Changes: 10/15/2014 17:00 (57), 07/05/2017 09:04 (7), 07/21/2024 21:00 (25)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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