Security Advisory SA25595 - PhpWiki Empty LDAP Passwords Authentication Bypass

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Secunia Advisory SA25595

PhpWiki Empty LDAP Passwords Authentication Bypass

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SA25595

Release Date

2007-06-11

Last Update

2007-06-15

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Software:

PhpWiki 1.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-3193 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in PhpWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within lib/WikiUser/LDAP.php when binding to an LDAP server with an empty password. Depending on the LDAP implementation used, this can be exploited to bypass the authentication mechanism.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.3.13p1.

Solution
Update to version 1.3.13p1.

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Original Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=514820

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1732882&group_id=6121&atid=106121

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