P-News 1.16/1.17 information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in P-News 1.16/1.17. It has been classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2006-6888. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in P-News 1.16/1.17. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

P-News 1.16 and 1.17 store sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain the administrative account name and password hash via a direct request for db/user.dat.

The weakness was presented 12/31/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-6888 since 01/05/2007. 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 are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

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

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 (31197) and Exploit-DB (3054). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

12/31/2006 🔍
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01/05/2007 +5 days 🔍
03/12/2015 +2988 days 🔍
08/15/2024 +3444 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2006-6888 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-6888
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-34193
X-Force: 31197 - P-News user.dat information disclosure

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 22:21
Updated: 08/15/2024 10:56
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (41), 08/13/2018 06:52 (10), 08/15/2024 10:56 (22)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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