VDB-87083 · OSVDB 69352 · GCVE-100-87083

CakePHP security.php unserialize privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in CakePHP and classified as critical. The impacted element is the function unserialize in the library cake/libs/controller/components/security.php. The manipulation leads to privileges management. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in CakePHP (the affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function unserialize in the library cake/libs/controller/components/security.php. The manipulation 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 presented 11/14/2010. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After 1 days, there has been an exploit disclosed. By approaching the search of inurl:cake/libs/controller/components/security.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at OSVDB (69352†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

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CakePHP

CPE 2.3info

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

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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Exploitinginfo

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

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

11/13/2010 🔍
11/14/2010 +1 days 🔍
11/15/2010 +1 days 🔍
11/15/2010 +0 days 🔍
05/09/2016 +2001 days 🔍
01/17/2019 +983 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Status: Not defined

GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-87083
OSVDB: 69352 - CakePHP cake/libs/controller/components/security.php unserialize() Function PHP Code Execution

Entryinfo

Created: 05/09/2016 22:17
Updated: 01/17/2019 12:09
Changes: 05/09/2016 22:17 (38), 01/17/2019 12:09 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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