TeeKai`s Forum cookie manipulation could allow administrative access to the Web forum
| teekais-forum-admin-access (9285) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
TeeKai's Forum could allow a remote attacker to gain administrative access to the Web forum. A remote attacker could manipulate an authentication cookie value to gain unauthorized access to TeeKai's Forum as an arbitrary user, including possibly the administrative user.
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- Teekai's Web site: [PHP4 » Forum].
- Vuln-Dev Mailing List, 2002-06-03 19:52:07: Security holes in two Teekai's products + security hole in ncmail.netscape.com.
- BID-4925: Teekai's Forum Cookie Manipulation Account Compromise Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-2054: TeeKai Forum 1.2 allows remote attackers to authenticate as the administrator and and gain privileged web forum access by setting the valid_level cookie to admin.
Platforms Affected:
- Teekai TeeKai's Forum 1.2
Reported:
Jun 03, 2002
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