Serious security problem, it seems?
Just forwarding, didn't verify any of this.
We only use the RaQ hardware, and put a totally different unix
distribution on it.
For those using it as supplied, closing off port 81 from the
internet seems to be a wise thing ...
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Subject: [chuck@xxxxxx: Cobalt RaQ2 - a user of mine changed my admin
password..]
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 23:04:35 +0100
From: Patrick Oonk <patrick@xxxxxxx>
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To: niels@xxxxxxxxx
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:29:56 -0700
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From: Chuck Pitre - Technical Support <chuck@xxxxxx>
Subject: Cobalt RaQ2 - a user of mine changed my admin password..
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Needles to say that was scary :)
anyhow I rather feel embarrassed about this one (actually I can't
believe
I didn't think of it myself)
I've pasted his email to me below. I have not yet attempted to
duplicate
the bug.
-- snip snip --
To replicate this bug you must have Site Administrator access to one of
the accounts on the server. When you go into the Site Management for a
site
and select the User Management option, you get a list of the usernames
that
have been setup for that account. The green pencil edit icon is a
command
to execute the JavaScript function modify() and it passes the username
as
the only variable into the function. To properly execute a function
from
the Location Bar in Netscape, the HTML page has to be the top frame. I
simply opened the userList.html file in a new frame. When you type
"javascript: modify( 'admin' );" into the Location Bar, the modify()
function returns a URL. The URL returned when accessing it from my site
is
"http://207.153.19.154:81/cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteUserMod/siteUserMod.cgi?userna
me=admin&group=site151&949015199230". This loads a standard Modify User
page for the "admin" account. However, when you attempt to change this
information by clicking the "Confirm Modify" button, it returns a
JavaScript
error because the function that it calls upon is dependant on the frame
layout of the Site Management page. To overcome this issue I simply
downloaded two HTML files to my hard disk. One is the index.html file,
other other is the right.html file. I basically changed the index.html
file
to call upon the URL's on my site and had it load the right.html file
locally off my hard disk. I then changed the right.html file to load
the
URL's on my site but changed the "main" frame source to
"http://207.153.19.154:81/cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteUserMod/siteUserMod.cgi?userna
me=admin&group=site151&949015199230" - the Modify User page for the
"admin"
account. It then loads up with all the correct frames AND the Modify
User
page for the "admin" account. I very simply just enter a new password
for
the user and click "Confirm Modify" and presto! The admin password is
changed allowing me access to the Server Management page showing all the
server's clients, IP addresses, domain names, and ability to access all
the
client's contact people, telephone numbers, usernames, and passwords. I
also could delete any sites/files or downloaded any sites/files. I then
had
full access via FTP to the site showing the root directory of the
server,
and the ability to delete any evidence via the /log/ directory.
I hope this answers any of the questions you had, and the whole
process
took me under 5 minutes!
-- snip snip --
the users email address is skirkham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you have any
questions about it...
----->One Connection, A Million Places To Go<-----
Chuck Pitre
OA Group of Technologies, Internet Division
Network Operations
(780) 425-5151 ext 556 telephone
(780) 425-3852 fax
1-888-663-1336 Toll Free
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