Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in phpFreeChat, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct hijacking attacks.
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TITLE:
phpFreeChat nickid Hijacking Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31283
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31283/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Hijacking
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
phpFreeChat 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/18010/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in phpFreeChat, which can be
exploited by malicious users to conduct hijacking attacks.
The problem is that the nickid values are the same as the users'
session IDs. This can be exploited to take over other users' or
administrators' sessions.
Successful exploitation requires valid user credentials.
The vulnerability is reported in all 1.x versions before 1.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Cerberus.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.phpfreechat.net/changelog/1.2
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