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TITLE:
babelweb "user" Privilege Escalation Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45626

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-08-30

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DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in babelweb, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to potentially perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The weakness is caused due to an error when checking if the "user"
option is set correctly and leads to babelweb running with root
privileges.

The weakness is reported in version 0.2.1. Prior versions may also be
affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.2.2.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://github.com/kerneis/babelweb/commit/093d2e5abc0ac918fae8cadc1f6fe2de8aab32f0#server.js

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