index2.php in Mambo 4.0.12 allows remote malicious users to gain administrator access via a URL request where session_id is set to the MD5 hash of a session cookie.
source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/6926/info
Mambo Site Server may grant access without sufficiently validating cookie based authentication credentials It has been reported that Mambo will accept a user cookie sent by the site as an administrative credential To exploit this issue, the attacker must receive a cookie (such as the one issued ...
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