MyBB up to 1.4.11 member.php COUNT denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in MyBB. This affects the function Count of the file member.php. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2010-4628. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in MyBB (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function COUNT of the file member.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

member.php in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.4.12 makes a certain superfluous call to the SQL COUNT function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by making requests to member.php that trigger scans of the entire users table.

The weakness was shared 12/30/2010 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at blog.mybb.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-4628 since 12/30/2010. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

By approaching the search of inurl:member.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 1.2.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (64514). The entries VDB-55905, VDB-55903, VDB-55902 and VDB-55901 are related to this item. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Type

• Content Management System

Name

• MyBB

Version

• 1.00
• 1.01
• 1.02
• 1.03
• 1.04
• 1.1.0
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.5
• 1.1.6
• 1.1.7
• 1.1.8
• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.9
• 1.2.10
• 1.2.11
• 1.2.12
• 1.2.13
• 1.4.0
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.6
• 1.4.8
• 1.4.9
• 1.4.10
• 1.4.11

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://mybb.com/

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