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Secunia Advisory SA33097

eZ Publish Insufficient User ID Validation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA33097
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Release Date 2008-12-11
Last Update 2009-07-06
   
Popularity 3,302 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
eZ Publish 3.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-6844 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

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

The vulnerability is caused due to the application not properly checking if the provided user ID value already exists during user registration. This can be exploited to modify existing users by providing an already existing user ID value.

This vulnerability is reported in version 3.5.6 and later.


Solution
Update to version 3.9.5, 3.10.1 or 4.0.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
s4avrd0w

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
s4avrd0w:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7406

EZSA-2008-003:
http://ez.no/developer/security/security_advisories/ez_publish_4_0/ezsa_2008_003_insufficient_form_handling_made_privilege_escalation_possible

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