Secunia Security Advisory - Michael White and Graham Murphy have reported a weakness in Lanap BotDetect ASP.NET, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
Lanap BotDetect ASP.NET CAPTCHA Bypass Weakness
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20830
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20830/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Lanap BotDetect ASP.NET CAPTCHA 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/10628/
DESCRIPTION:
Michael White and Graham Murphy have reported a weakness in Lanap
BotDetect ASP.NET, which can be exploited by malicious people to
bypass certain security restrictions.
The weakness is caused due to the UUID and hash for a given CAPTCHA
being stored within the page's ViewState. This can be exploited to
bypass the security feature by replaying the ViewState.
The weakness has been reported in versions prior to 1.5.4.0.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.4.0.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Michael White and Graham Murphy, Symantec.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2006-005.txt
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