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CGINews and CGIForum May Expose Passwords to Local Users
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10442
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Release Date:
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2003-12-16
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Last Update:
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2006-11-13
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Popularity:
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5,733 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Partial Fix
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| Software: | CGIForum 1.x
CGINews 1.x
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Description:
JeiAr has reported a weakness in CGINews and CGIForum, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to see passwords.
The problem is that the ".pwl" files are located in a directory, which by default is readable by anyone. Since the password is "encrypted" in a weak way, it can easily be decoded.
The issue has been reported to affect CGINews 1.07 and CGIForum 1.09.
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that passwords are stored using MD5.
The weakness has reportedly been fixed in CGIForum version 1.10 where a more secure encryption method is configured by default.
Provided and/or discovered by:
JeiAr
Changelog:
2006-11-13: Updated "Solution" section. Added information about CGIForum version 1.10.
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