Description
The web-based management interfaces in Sourcefire Defense Center (DC) and 3D Sensor before 4.8.2 allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a $admin value for the admin parameter in an edit action to admin/user/user.cgi and unspecified other components.
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
- Sourcefire 3D Sensor & Defense Center 4.8.x - Privilege Escalation EDB-9074 · webapps · Jul 2, 2009 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 35658 third-party-advisory
- 1022500 vdb-entry
- 9074 exploit
- 20090701 Sourcefire 3D Sensor and DC, privilege escalation vulnerability mailing-list
- ADV-2009-1785 vdb-entry
- 35553 vdb-entry