Re: Fairly serious vulnerability in vBulletin 2.2.0

From: Sam Sargeant (sam@whackass.com)
Date: 01/31/02


Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:23:18 +1300
From: Sam Sargeant <sam@whackass.com>
To: HarryM <harrym@the-group.org>


On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:18:23AM -0000, HarryM wrote:

> Solution:
> Ensure that $bbuserid, $bbpassword, and the rest of the cookied variables
> are coming from the cookie and not from GET or POST data, by using the
> $HTTP_COOKIE array.

Unfortunately, this is nothing more than a workaround too. It's trivial to
create your own cookie jar with the appropriate data.

-- 
Sam Sargeant <sam@whackass.com> 
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