SNS Vulnerability

SetSeed "loggedInUser" SQL Injection Vulnerability

Description

Gjoko Krstic has discovered a vulnerability in SetSeed, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "loggedInUser" COOKIE parameter to e.g. index.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 5.8.20. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
SetSeed 5.x

Solution

Update to version 5.11.2.

CVE

References

ZSL-2011-5053:
http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2011-5053.php

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious DROP statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious CREATE statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious DECLARE statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : possible version probing in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious INSERT statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious EXEC statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious UNION statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious HAVING statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious SELECT statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious CAST statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious UPDATE statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OR statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious DROP statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious EXEC statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : possible version probing in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious CAST statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious SELECT statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious CREATE statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious HAVING statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OR statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious DECLARE statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious INSERT statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious UPDATE statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious UNION statement in Cookie	4.1.2

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2011-11-03

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote