CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4240
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-08-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The check_logout function in class/auth.php in Help Center Live (hcl) 2.1.3a sends a redirect to the web browser but does not exit when administrative credentials are missing, which allows remote attackers to delete administrative users and have other unspecified impact via certain requests to (1) admin/departments.php, (2) admin/operators.php, and other unspecified scripts. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected configurations
• help center live help center live 2.1.3a
References
- http://osvdb.org/39400 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26352 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25225 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35833 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/39400 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26352 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25225 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35833 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com