VDB-82187 · BID 11497 · SA12909

Serendipity exit.php url privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Serendipity. It has been rated as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the file exit.php. The manipulation of the argument url leads to privileges management. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Serendipity (Content Management System) (version unknown). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the file exit.php. The manipulation of the argument url with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 10/21/2004 by Chaotic Evil (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at sourceforge.net. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details as well as a exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After 18 hours, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:exit.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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 11497†), OSVDB (11039†) and Secunia (SA12909†). The entries VDB-22334 and VDB-82186 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

10/21/2004 🔍
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10/22/2004 +0 days 🔍
04/12/2016 +4190 days 🔍
10/04/2018 +905 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: sourceforge.net
Researcher: Chaotic Evil
Status: Not defined

GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-82187
SecurityFocus: 11497 - Serendipity Exit.PHP HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability
Secunia: 12909
OSVDB: 11039 - Serendipity exit.php url Variable HTTP Response Splitting

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

Created: 04/12/2016 17:55
Updated: 10/04/2018 16:29
Changes: 04/12/2016 17:55 (43), 10/04/2018 16:29 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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