miniPortail cookie could allow administrative access
| miniportail-cookie-admin-access (11976) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
miniPortail could allow a remote attacker to gain administrative access to the program, caused by a vulnerability in the admin.php script. A remote attacker could manipulate the $cookiedata value to gain unauthorized access to miniPortail as the administrative user.
Platforms Affected:
- aldweb, miniPortail 1.9
- aldweb, miniPortail 2.0
- aldweb, miniPortail 2.1
- aldweb, miniPortail 2.2
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 29, 2008.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu May 08 2003 - 10:35:46 CDT, miniPortail (PHP) : Admin Access at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-05/0094.html.
- phpSecure.org Web site, phpSecure.org - Welcome ! at http://www.phpsecure.info/.
- CVE-2003-0272: admin.php in miniPortail allows remote attackers to gain administrative privileges by setting the miniPortailAdmin cookie to an adminok value.
Reported:
May 08, 2003
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