CVE-2005-4458

2005-12-2111:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

77.4%

JSON

Group.pm in Metadot Portal Server 6.4.4 and earlier does not properly reset the $IS_OWNER, $IS_ADMIN, and $IS_MANAGER global variables when performing checks for special privileges, which allows users to gain administrator privileges by adding themselves to the SITE_MGR group.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-12/1012.html

secunia.com/advisories/18137

securityreason.com/securityalert/287

www.metadot.com/metadot/index.pl?iid=2632

www.osvdb.org/22014

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420002/100/0/threaded

www.securityfocus.com/bid/15975

www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3030

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23847