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Lurker Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA19136  
Release Date: 2006-03-06
Last Update: 2006-03-14

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Lurker 1.x
Lurker 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-1062 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-1063 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-1064 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Lurker, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, and disclose and manipulate sensitive information.

1) An unspecified input validation error in "lurker.cgi" can be exploited to disclose the content of arbitrary files.

2) An unspecified error can be exploited to create or overwrite arbitrary files in any directory called "mbox".

3) Some unspecified input isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 0.1a through 2.0.

Solution:
Update to version 2.1.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8168

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Moritz Naumann.

Changelog:
2006-03-14: Added CVE references.



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