Description
templates.admin.users.user_form_processing in Blue Coat Reporter before 7.1.2 allows authenticated users to gain administrator privileges via an HTTP POST that sets volatile.user.administrator to true.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Blue Coat Reporter 7.0/7.1 - Privilege Escalation EDB-25697 · remote · May 24, 2005 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 15452 third-party-advisory
- 20050524 Blue Coat Reporter multiple remote vulnerabilities mailing-list
- http://www.bluecoat.com/support/knowledge/advisory_reporter_711_vulnerabilities.html
- 16763 vdb-entry
- 13723 vdb-entry
- ADV-2005-0589 vdb-entry