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Joomla! Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA31789
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Release Date:
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2008-09-10
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Last Update:
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2008-09-25
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Popularity:
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2,494 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Unknown
Brute force
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Joomla! 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-4102
CVE-2008-4103
CVE-2008-4105
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities and a security issue have been reported in Joomla!, where some have an unknown impact and others can potentially be exploited by malicious people to conduct brute force attacks.
1) The application uses the insufficiently random function "mt_rand()" to generate password reset tokens. This can can potentially be exploited to guess a generated token or password.
2) An input validation error exists within JRequest, which can be exploited to inject certain characters into returned data.
3) An input validation error exists within the "mailto" component before sending mails.
The vulnerabilities and security issue are reported in versions prior to version 1.5.7.
Solution:
Update to version 1.5.7.
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Stefan Esser.
2) The vendor credits Andrew Eddie.
3) The vendor credits Phil Taylor.
Changelog:
2008-09-12: Added additional information provided by Stefan Esser. Added additional link to "Original Advisory" section.
2008-09-25: Added CVE references.
Original Advisory:
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/r...7-security-release-now-available.html
Stefan Esser:
http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-04.txt
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