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TITLE:
Invision Power Board Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15545

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CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Invision Power Board 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3705/
Invision Power Board 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/330/

DESCRIPTION:
Rapigator has reported a vulnerability in Invision Power Board, which
can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when deleting user
groups. This can be exploited by a non-root admin to move users into
the root admin group.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0 through 2.0.4.
Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Only add trusted users as non-root admins.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Rapigator

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