Cuyahoga FCKEditor Security Bypass Issue

Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 @ 07:41:08 CST in Security
by Raven

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA23662

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/23662/

CRITICAL: Moderately critical

IMPACT: Security Bypass

SOFTWARE: Cuyahoga 1.x - http://secunia.com/product/13174/

DESCRIPTION: A security issue has been reported in Cuyahoga, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
The security issue is caused due to incorrect security restrictions of the FCKEditor component. This can be exploited to e.g. gain upload and file browser access. The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.0.1.

SOLUTION: Update to version 1.0.1 or get the updated web.config file and copy it into the /Support/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/ directory.
http://www.cuyahoga-project.org/UserFiles/File/FCKeditor-Web.config.zip

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.cuyahoga-project.org/10/section.aspx/61
 
 
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Re: Cuyahoga FCKEditor Security Bypass Issue (Score: 1)
by kguske on Monday, January 08, 2007 @ 07:51:37 CST

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By default, the upload and file browser access is only available to Nuke administrators in admin functions. This can be overridden by a webmaster, but requires a file change. The standard RavenNuke and nukeWYSIWYG implementations of FCKeditor are not susceptible to this issue.

Re: Cuyahoga FCKEditor Security Bypass Issue (Score: 1)
by Guardian2003
on Monday, January 08, 2007 @ 08:25:14 CST
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I looked at this too but you bet me to a response.
For what its worth, I came to the same conclusion.

 
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