TITLE:
AL-Caricatier "cookie_username" Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17292

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17292/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
AL-Caricatier 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/5964/

DESCRIPTION:
God Of Death has discovered a vulnerability in AL-Caricatier, which
can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
protections.

The vulnerability is caused due to an insecure authentication process
in "ss.php". This can be exploited to access the administration
section without being authenticated by setting the "cookie_username"
cookie parameter to "admin".

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.5. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that administrators are properly
authenticated.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
God Of Death

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