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TITLE:
Free Hosting Manager Insecure Cookie Handling Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31383

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31383/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Free Hosting Manager 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/19463/

DESCRIPTION:
lvlr-Erfan has discovered a vulnerability in Free Hosting Manager,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to improper access restrictions when
accessing the administration interface. This can be exploited to
bypass the authentication mechanism and gain access to the
administration section by setting the "adminuser" and "loggedin"
cookies to "1".

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.0.1. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to the "admin" directory (e.g. via ".htaccess").

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
lvlr-Erfan, Scary-Boys

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/6213

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