CVE-2008-3321

published 2008-07-25

CVE-2008-3321: admin/index.php in Maian Uploader 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access by sending an arbitrary…

Priority P2 60 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C P I P A P

EXPLOIT

admin/index.php in Maian Uploader 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access by sending an arbitrary uploader_cookie cookie.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
maian_script_world	maian_uploader	<= 4.0	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

cookie uploader_cookie=1↗

path /admin/index.php↗

• → Detect authentication bypass by monitoring requests to /admin/index.php that carry an 'uploader_cookie' cookie with any arbitrary value — the application only checks for cookie existence, not its content. ↗
• → Alert on any HTTP request to admin/index.php in Maian Uploader that includes the 'uploader_cookie' header, especially from unauthenticated or unexpected sources. ↗
• → Use the Google dork 'Powered by: Maian Uploader v4.0' to identify exposed vulnerable instances. ↗

• · The cookie value is arbitrary — any value set for 'uploader_cookie' grants admin access, so detection rules must trigger on the presence of the cookie name alone, not a specific value. ↗

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