ContentKeeper Discloses Passwords to Remote Authenticated Administrators
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1016915
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1016915
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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5018
(Links to External Site)
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Updated: Jun 3 2008
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Original Entry Date: Sep 25 2006
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Impact: Disclosure of authentication information
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Exploit Included: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 123.25 and prior versions
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in ContentKeeper. A remote authenticated user can obtain passwords.
The user administration interface contains passwords within the HTML code. A remote authenticated administrator can view the HTML
code to obtain passwords for user accounts on the system.
The vendor was notified on June 8, 2006.
Patrick Webster discovered
this vulnerability.
The original advisory is available at:
http://www.aushack.com/advisories/200606-contentkeeper.txt
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Impact: A remote authenticated administrator can view passwords for accounts on the system.
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Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.
[Editor's note: The report indicates that the vendor was to have released a fix in July 2006, but it is unclear whether a fix was released or not.]
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Vendor URL: www.contentkeeper.com/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Access control error
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Reported By: "Patrick Webster" <patrick@aushack.com>
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:09:30 +1000
From: "Patrick Webster" <patrick@aushack.com>
Subject: ContentKeeper Authenticated Access Password Disclosure
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aushack.com - Vulnerability Advisory
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Release Date:
22-Sep-2006
Software:
ContentKeeper Technologies - ContentKeeper
http://www.contentkeeper.com/
"ContentKeeper is an industry leading Internet content filter that allows
organisations to monitor, manage, control & secure staff access to
Internet resources."
Versions affected:
ContentKeeper 123.25 and below.
Vulnerability discovered:
A design flaw in the user administration interface reveals account
passwords inside the HTML source code. Any authenticated user with
appropriate access to the user administration page may use this
information to compromise the accounts on other systems.
Vulnerability impact:
Low - Unauthorised password disclosure may result in other system account
breaches where the revealed password has been reused.
Vulnerability information
The appliance is administered by use of a web browser HTML based front
end. Authenticated users have access to the account administration page,
whereby they can administer existing usernames, reset passwords, create
and delete accounts etc. The appliance does not hash the existing user
passwords. When the page is requested, the plaintext password for each
account is inserted into the password input value of the FORM element
and sent to the client.
Example:
https://contentkeeperbox/cgi-bin/ck/changepw.cgi
This will return all user details. By viewing the page source,
the password of each account is revealed.
E.g. for user 'root' with a password of 'it_isAs3cret':
<form>
<input name="username" type="text" value="root">Username:
<input type="password" name="password" value="it_isAs3cret">Pas
sword:
..
<input name="username" type="text" value="rootBackup">Username:
<input type="password" name="password" value="IamF0rgetful">Pas
sword:
</form>
It may be possible to extract this information from the browser cache,
however the HTML content is set to expire immediately.
Solution:
None yet, do not reuse passwords. Future versions may hash the value.
References:
aushack.com advisory
http://www.aushack.com/advisories/200606-contentkeeper.txt
Credit:
Patrick Webster (patrick@aushack.com)
Disclosure timeline:
15-Mar-2006 - Discovered during quick audit - common design flaw.
08-Jun-2006 - Sent to ContentKeeper support.
12-Jun-2006 - Vendor response, update expected July 2006.
22-Sep-2006 - Public disclosure.
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