HexBrain

U.S. Dept Of Defense · Report #1326352

Access to admininstrative resources/account via path traversal

Validstatus
criticalseverity
6 Sept 2022disclosed

How it was found

Description: A user can login as an administrator without the need of an ██████████ account, or an authenticated user can access and manipulate administrative resources without needing to login as an administrator. An ████████ (███████) account is required.

References

Impact

Exfiltration of sensitive data (IPs, system configurations, passwords, usernames, email addresses, names), website defacing, denial of service, potential rce, deletion of data.

System Host(s)

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Affected Product(s) and Version(s)

CVE Numbers

Steps to Reproduce

If you do not have an ██████(██████████) account:

Navigate to https://██████/ Login using your ████████ account. When you login you should be at the page https://██████/Saba/██████/CustomLogin.jsp with the error "There was an error while processing your request. Please try again. If the problem persists, please contact the help desk at ████████". Navigate to https://█████████/home Your account name should say "Samba administrator"

If you do have an █████████(███████) account:

Navigate to https://█████/ Login using your ███████ account. Navigate to a page in the admin directory i.e. https://███████/Saba/Web_wdk/████████/platform/system/admin/systemMain.rdf or https://██████████/Saba/Web_wdk/███████/Platform/system/admin/usersStatistics.rdf

Suggested Mitigation/Remediation Actions

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