bugtraq - Re: Vulnerability in CB Captcha for Joomla and Mambo

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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:08:26 +0200
From: Matteo Valenza <ilmetu@...il.com>
To: Susan Bradley <sbradcpa@...bell.net>
Cc: MustLive <mustlive@...security.com.ua>, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Vulnerability in CB Captcha for Joomla and Mambo

how can i solve this issue quickly ?

Thanks.

Il giorno 15/apr/2010, alle ore 21.11, Susan Bradley ha scritto:

> Dear Bugtraq.
> 
> I am an admin of a site that has Captcha that spam gets through and the CPU sucks.
> 
> Honest question -- are you going to post about every site that has lousy captcha?  Would it be faster if us admins that have lousy captcha just outted ourselves first?
> 
> MustLive wrote:
>> Hello Bugtraq!
>> 
>> I want to warn you about security vulnerability in plugin CB Captcha
>> (plug_cbcaptcha) for component Community Builder (com_comprofiler) for
>> Joomla and Mambo. The posting of this advisory to mailing lists was delayed,
>> because I found that there are two different vulnerable versions of plugin
>> developed by different authors, so I needed to inform all authors.
>> 
>> -----------------------------
>> Advisory: Vulnerability in CB Captcha for Joomla and Mambo
>> -----------------------------
>> URL: http://websecurity.com.ua/4087/
>> -----------------------------
>> Affected products: CB Captcha 1.0.2 and previous versions (developed by
>> Kotofeich), CB Captcha 2.2 and previous versions (developed by Beat).
>> -----------------------------
>> Timeline:
>> 17.03.2010 - found vulnerability.
>> 31.03.2010 - disclosed at my site.
>> 01.04.2010 - informed developer of CB Captcha 1.x. And because I found other
>> version of the plugin by another author, and after checking it later I
>> informed author of CB Captcha 2.x.
>> 13.04.2010 - additionally informed developers of Community Builder (both
>> joomlapolis.com and communitybuilder.ru).
>> -----------------------------
>> Details:
>> 
>> This is Insufficient Anti-automation vulnerability.
>> 
>> This plugin is based on captcha script CaptchaSecurityImages.php and I
>> already reported about vulnerabilities in CaptchaSecurityImages
>> (http://websecurity.com.ua/4043/). And in plugin plug_cbcaptcha were fixed
>> all Insufficient Anti-automation and Denial of Service vulnerabilities from
>> original script, except one.
>> 
>> Insufficient Anti-automation:
>> 
>> In the plugin it's possible to bypass captcha with using of session reusing
>> with constant captcha bypass method (http://websecurity.com.ua/1551/), which
>> was described in project Month of Bugs in Captchas. With using of this
>> method it's possible to bypass protection by sending the same code of
>> captcha.
>> 
>> It can be done at all pages where this plugin is used. In CB Captcha 1.x
>> it's using at registration page, lost password form and lost email form. In
>> CB Captcha 2.x, in addition to before-mentioned forms, it's using at contact
>> form (in the presence of component CB Contact 1.1) and login form (in the
>> presence of login module of CB 1.2).
>> 
>> PoC:
>> 
>> The PoC for this Insufficient Anti-automation vulnerability was provided to
>> developers. Everyone who want can create such PoC from exploit provided in
>> above-mentioned article from MoBiC project.
>> 
>> Best wishes & regards,
>> MustLive
>> Administrator of Websecurity web site
>> http://websecurity.com.ua
>> 
>>