Arbitrary Administrative Privilege Escalation in Simple Internet Publishing System (SIPS)

CVE-2002-0267 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

preferences.php in Simple Internet Publishing System (SIPS) before 0.3.1 allows remote attackers to gain administrative privileges via a linebreak in the "theme" field followed by the Status::admin command, which causes the Status line to be entered into the password file.

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