Check Point Advisories

vBulletin install upgrade.php Privilege Escalation (CVE-2013-6129)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-1619
Date Published: 9 Jun 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 09 June, 2014
Source: Rapid7
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-6129
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? vBulletin 4.1+
vBulletin 4.5+
Vulnerability Description A privilege escalation vulnerability has been reported in vBulletin. A remote attacker may exploit this issue by sending a specially crafted POST message to the "install/upgrade.php" component of the server via the customerid, htmldata[password], htmldata[confirmpassword], and htmldata[email] parameters. Successful exploitation would allow the attacker to create a new administrator user, which will give it full control of the exploited vBulletin application.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the vBulletin install upgrade.php Privilege Escalation protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  vBulletin install upgrade.php Privilege Escalation

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