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Secunia Advisory SA10442

CGINews and CGIForum May Expose Passwords to Local Users
Secunia Advisory SA10442
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Release Date 2003-12-16
Last Update 2006-11-13
   
Popularity 7,323 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Partial Fix
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
CGIForum 1.x
CGINews 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

JeiAr has reported a weakness in CGINews and CGIForum, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to see passwords.

The problem is that the ".pwl" files are located in a directory, which by default is readable by anyone. Since the password is "encrypted" in a weak way, it can easily be decoded.

The issue has been reported to affect CGINews 1.07 and CGIForum 1.09.


Solution
Edit the source code to ensure that passwords are stored using MD5.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
JeiAr

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