WebGUI < 7.5.13 RSS Feed Authentication Bypass

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4559

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a flaw that allows for the bypassing of authentication.

Description

The remote host is running WebGUI, a content management framework. The remote version of this software is vulnerable to a flaw in the way that it handles access to data. Protected data can be accessed by requesting the data within an RSS feed. An attacker exploiting this flaw would only need the ability to request an RSS subscription.

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.5.13 or higher.

See Also

http://www.webgui.org/bugs/tracker/security-issue---collaboration-rss

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4559

Family: CGI

Published: 8/18/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:webgui:plain_black_webgui

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3503

BID: 29927