VDB-27467 · CVE-2005-4219 · OSVDB 21766

Innovative CMS setting.php cleartext storage

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Innovative CMS. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file setting.php. The manipulation leads to cleartext storage. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-4219. No exploit exists. It is recommended to add further authentication.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Innovative CMS (Content Management System) (version now known). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file setting.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cleartext storage vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-312. The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

setting.php in Innovative CMS (ICMS, formerly Imoel-CMS) contains username and password information in cleartext, which might allow attackers to obtain this information via a direct request to setting.php. NOTE: on a properly configured web server, it would be expected that a .php file would be processsed before content is returned to the user, so this might not be a vulnerability.

The weakness was disclosed 12/12/2005 by mehrtash mallahzadeh as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-4219 since 12/14/2005. 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 attack technique deployed by this issue is T1555 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. By approaching the search of inurl:setting.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding an authentication mechanism.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at OSVDB (21766†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1015343†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

Content Management System

Name

Innovative CMS

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.2

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cleartext storage
CWE: CWE-312 / CWE-310
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Authentication
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Timelineinfo

12/12/2005 🔍
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12/14/2005 +2 days 🔍
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07/27/2017 +869 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: mehrtash mallahzadeh
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-4219 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-4219
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-27467
OSVDB: 21766 - Imoel CMS setting.php SQL Authentication Credential Cleartext Disclosure
SecurityTracker: 1015343 - Imoel CMS Discloses SQL Password to Remote Users

Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 07/27/2017 08:50
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (49), 07/27/2017 08:50 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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