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