Cuteflow Version 2.10.3 "edituser.php" Security Bypass Vulnerability

2009-08-27 / 2009-08-28

Credit: hHever Costa Rocha

Risk: High

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2009-2960

CWE: CWE-264

CVSS Base Score: 7.5/10

Impact Subscore: 6.4/10

Exploitability Subscore: 10/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Low

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: Partial

Integrity impact: Partial

Availability impact: Partial

It's possible edit the users (including the admin account), bypassing the authentication through the address:
http://localhost/cuteflow/pages/edituser.php?userid=1&language=pt&sortby=strLastName&sortdir=ASC&start=1
The vulnerability is caused due to the application not properly restricting access to the pages/edituser.php script. This can be exploited to modify a user's username and password without having proper credentials.
Hever Costa Rocha

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36099

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/506000/100/0/threaded

http://secunia.com/advisories/36349

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