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Hosting Controller <= 6.1 Hotfix 3.1 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks version of Hosting Controller

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote web server contains an ASP application that suffers from a
privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description :

According to its version number, the installation of Hosting
Controller on the remote host enables any authenticated user to gain
host admin rights and view all his resellers and change their
passwords.

See also :

http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1987
http://hostingcontroller.com/english/logs/hotfixlogv61_3_2.html

Solution :

Upgrade to version 6.1 if necessary and apply Hotfix 3.2 or later.

Network Security Threat Level:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 4
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:R/C:P/A:P/I:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 18565

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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