A vulnerability has been reported in the Secure Site module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the IP-authentication feature. If an attacker e.g. uses the same proxy as a currently logged in user, this can be exploited to gain access as this user.

The vulnerability is reported in Secure Site for Drupal 5.x and 4.7.x.

Solution
The vulnerable feature has been removed in updated versions.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Tim Altman

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://drupal.org/node/216019

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