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TITLE:
H-Sphere Control Panel Insecure Permissions of Logfiles

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23199

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23199/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
H-Sphere 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/935/

DESCRIPTION:
fireD has reported a vulnerability in H-Sphere, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application creating log files
within the user's directory with insecure permissions. This can be
exploited via symlink attacks to append log data to arbitrary files.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.4.3. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability is reportedly fixed in version 2.5.0 RC3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
fireD

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