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qcred11
Jun 26 2004, 06:48 PM
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Valerie Holfield reported a vulnerability in the automatic login feature in phpmyfamily.

> When a visitor (someone who's not logged in) clicks to
> download a document and then leaves the page, they
> are automatically logged in as 'nobody.'
> 'Nobody' now has the right to add people, change
> information, upload and delete documents and images,
> and is even given the option to change password
> (although not sure what the system considers the
> current password to be).

The vendor subsequently reported that the flaw only affects systems with "register_globals
= On" in their 'php.ini' file.

A fixed version (1.3.1) is available at:

http://www.phpmyfamily.net/downloads.php



Source: http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Jun/1010582.html
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