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H2O-CMS Cookie Security Bypass and Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA32433
Release Date: 2008-10-29
Popularity: 1,487 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:H2O-CMS 3.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in H2O-CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) A vulnerability is caused due to the application allowing access to the admin interface by checking if specific cookies exist. This can be exploited to gain administrative access to the application by creating the cookies "admin" with the value "1", "id" with the value "1" and "user" with the value "admin".

2) Input passed to the "site_title", "login_stat", "colour", "menu_home", "user_menu_news_posting", "user_menu_news_manager", "user_menu_messagebox", "news_posting_auto_approval", "bottom_text", "db_name", "db_username", "db_password" and "db_server" parameters in SaveConfig.php is not properly sanitised before being written to includes/config.php. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires administrative privileges (see vulnerability #1).

These vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 3.4. Other versions may also be affected.

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