CVE-2018-6180

published 2018-02-08

CVE-2018-6180: A flaw in the profile section of Online Voting System 1.0 allows an unauthenticated user to set an arbitrary password for other accounts.

Priority P2 66 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

A flaw in the profile section of Online Voting System 1.0 allows an unauthenticated user to set an arbitrary password for other accounts.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
themashabrand	online_voting_platform	—	—

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

url admin/profile.php↗

command POST admin/profile.php id=1&admin=admin&password=ARBITRARY_PASSWORD&edit=↗

path /Onlinevoting/admin/profile.php↗

• → Detect unauthenticated POST requests to admin/profile.php with 'edit' parameter present and no valid session cookie — the application does not validate session state before updating user credentials. ↗
• → Alert on POST requests to admin/profile.php containing both 'password' and 'id' fields submitted by unauthenticated sessions (no session cookie or invalid session cookie). ↗
• → Monitor for sequential/incremental integer values in the 'id' POST parameter to admin/profile.php, indicative of enumeration of registered user accounts. ↗
• → Look for HTTP response body containing 'Successfully' string following a POST to admin/profile.php from an unauthenticated source, as the exploit uses this to confirm successful password overwrite. ↗

• · The exploit targets Online Voting System version 1.0 specifically; patched or differently versioned deployments may not be vulnerable at this exact endpoint. ↗
• · The default install path used in the exploit is /Onlinevoting/ — deployments at non-default paths will have a different base URL but the vulnerable endpoint (admin/profile.php) remains the same relative path. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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