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H-Sphere Control Panel Insecure Permissions of Logfiles
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA23199
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Release Date:
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2006-12-05
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Last Update:
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2006-12-11
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Popularity:
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5,018 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | H-Sphere 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-6382
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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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