4081 : Greymatter Remote Admin Account Compromise
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
8	602	over 7 years ago	over 2 years ago	2 times	100%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2002-02-24	2002-02-24

Description

Greymatter allows a remote attacker to retrieve a file that contains the administrative login and password stored in plaintext. The issue is due to the package storing this information in a file named "gmrightclick*reg" (where * is a six digit number) and being readable via the web server. With this information, an attacker can login with administrative privileges and have full control over the Greymatter installation.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality, Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.3 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Noah Grey	Greymatter	1.21a
		1.21b
		1.21c

References

CVE ID: 2002-0324 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 4169
ISS X-Force ID: 8277
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-02/0269.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.greymatterforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=209&highlight=vulnerability
Vendor URL: http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/

Credit

security curmudgeon - attrition.org

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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