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YaBB CRLF Injection Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA25656
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Release Date:
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2007-06-13
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Last Update:
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2007-06-15
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Popularity:
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4,931 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | YaBB 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-3208
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in YaBB, which can be exploited by malicious users and malicious people to gain escalated privileges.
Input passed to certain profile form fields is not properly sanitised before being written to the profile data (.vars) file for a user. This can be exploited to inject special characters and gain forum administrator privileges.
This can further be exploited to execute arbitrary Perl code by modifying the forum templates.
The vulnerability is reported in version 2.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Apply patch.
http://www.yabbforum.com/community/?board=general;action=display;num=1181678785
Provided and/or discovered by:
Peter Vreugdenhil, reported via iDefense.
Changelog:
2007-06-15: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=538
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