Authentication Bypass in phpstatus

Summary

Vulnerability
Authentication Bypass in phpstatus
Discovered
2006.02.04
Last Update
2006.03.18 Solution added
ID
EV0061
CVE
CVE-2006-0570 CVE-2006-0571 CVE-2006-0572
Risk Level
medium
Type
SQL Injection
Status
Patched
Vendor
Hinton Design (http://www.hintondesign.org)
Vulnerable Software
phpstatus (http://www.hintondesign.org/downloads/view_cat.php?cat_id=92)
Version
1.0
PoC/Exploit
Available
Solution
Available
Discovered by
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu (eVuln.com)

Description

SQL Injection found in phpstatus (http://www.hintondesign.org/downloads/view_cat.php?cat_id=92) script.

Vulnerable script: check.php

There are two ways to bypass authentication:

a) SQL Injection
Variable $HTTP_POST_VARS[username] isn't properly sanitized before being used in a SQL query. This can be used to make any SQL query by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Condition: magic_quotes_gpc - off

b) Cookie based authentication
check.php script dont make password comparisson when identifying user by cookies

Multiple Cross-Site Scripting & Multiple SQL Injections vulnerabilities are present in administrator's control panel.

PoC/Exploit

1. Authentication Bypass Examples

a) SQL Injection
url: http://host/ht/login.php
Username: ' or 1/*
Password: any

b) Cookie based authentication
Cookie: loged=yes
Cookie: username=admin
Cookie: user_level=1

Solution.

To fix this problem install or upgrade to latest version provided by vendor.