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Geeklog Admin Access and Execution of Arbitrary Code
Secunia Advisory: SA8895
Release Date: 2003-05-30
Popularity: 6,331 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Geeklog 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Geeklog. One allowing anyone to become a user and escalate their privileges to admin, the other allowing upload of arbitrary code.

1) The first problem is that user sessions isn't verified properly. It is possible to fool Geeklog into creating a valid user session by supplying an invalid userid. The check performed only verifies that the supplied password and the stored password is the same and not if they are NULL.

This problem can be exploited further, by supplying a userid with a floating point value e.g. "2.1" the stored password will be NULL because the user "2.1" doesn't exist, however, when the session is stored in the database the userid will be "2" because the field type is an integer.


2) The other problem is that the upload function allows malicious users to upload any file type including ".php" files.

These vulnerabilities have been identified in version 1.3.7sr1 and earlier.

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