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H-Sphere Control Panel Insecure Permissions of Logfiles Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA23199  
Release Date: 2006-12-05
Last Update: 2006-12-11

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:H-Sphere 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-6382 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
fireD has reported a vulnerability in H-Sphere, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application creating log files within the user's directory with insecure permissions. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to append log data to arbitrary files.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.4.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
The vulnerability is reportedly fixed in version 2.5.0 RC3.

Provided and/or discovered by:
fireD

Changelog:
2006-12-11: Added CVE reference.



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8 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. H-Sphere SiteStudio Unspecified Vulnerability
2. H-Sphere SiteStudio "template" Information Disclosure
3. H-Sphere Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
4. H-Sphere "login" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
5. H-Sphere Exposure of User Credentials
6. SiteStudio and H-Sphere "name" Script Insertion Vulnerability
7. H-Sphere Cross Site Scripting
8. H-Sphere buffer overflow


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