Mambo "passwd" Variable SQL Injection and Authentication Bypass Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in Mambo, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "login()" (4.5 branch) and "loginUser()" (4.6 branch) functions that do not properly validate the "usercookie[password]" cookie parameter before being used in SQL statements, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass the authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the administrative section where they can upload malicious PHP scripts and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.
Note : A cross site scripting issue has also been reported.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Mambo version 4.6 and priorMambo version 4.5.4 SP2 and prior
     
Solution   Fixes are available via SVN :https://guest:guest@mambo-foundation.org/svn/
     
CVE  
     
References   http://mamboxchange.com/tracker/?func=detail&aid=10280&group_id=5&atid=101
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00116-10042006
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
High 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2006-10-05 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote