ZH2003-4SA (security advisory): ASP-DEV Discussion Forum V2.0

Published: 12/07/2003



Released: 12/07/2003



Name: ASP-DEV Discussion Forum V2.0 



Affected Systems: All versions 



Issue: Remote attackers can obtain users information (including passwords)



Author: G00db0y@zone-h.org



Description



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Zone-h Security Team has discovered a serious security flaw in all 

versions of

ASP-DEV Discussion Forum "with many updated features, bug fixes and code 

enhancements."





Details



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ASP-DEV Discussion Forum V2.0 is an ASP forum system that covers all the 

needs for a forum. 



It's possible to retrieve sensible users information. There is an 

administrative

section for administrating this forum. This section is located here:



http://www.example.com/forum/admin/ (if forum is the installation dir of 

the forum)



By default this page isn't restricted, so everyone can be the 

administrator of this

forum. Everyone can see every password and every users information.



Solution:



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The vendor has been contacted and a patch is not yet produced





Suggestions:



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Protect the admin directory.



G00db0y - www.zone-h.org admin



Original advisory here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2685/