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TITLE:
PHPDevShell Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27828

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27828/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PHPDevShell 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/16707/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in PHPDevShell, which can be
exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when updating the user
profile and can be exploited to gain "admin" privileges by sending a
specially crafted request.

Successful exploitation requires valid user credentials.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 0.7.0.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.7.0.
http://www.phpdevshell.org/node/113

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.phpdevshell.org/changelog

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