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Invision Power Board Multiple Vulnerabilities (Priv Esc, SQLi
medium Nessus Plugin ID 18401
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Synopsis
The remote web server is hosting an application that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.Description
According to its banner, the version of Invision Power Board on the remote host suffers from a privilege escalation issue. To carry out an attack, an authenticated user goes to delete his own group and moves users from that group into the root admin group.In addition to this, the remote version of this software is prone to a SQL injection attack that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL statements against the remote database.
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Solution
Apply the patch as discussed in the forum posting above.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 18401
File Name: invision_power_board_priv_escalation.nasl
Version: 1.22
Type: remote
Family: CGI abuses
Published: 5/30/2005
Updated: 6/4/2024
Configuration: Enable thorough checks
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Enable CGI Scanning: true
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.6
Temporal Score: 4.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:invisionpower:invision_power_board
Required KB Items: www/invision_power_board
Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2005
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2005-1816