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Bug #10902 Possible security hole via external modification of session vars
Submitted: 2001-05-16 10:17 UTC Modified: 2001-05-16 10:35 UTC
From: luci at conexim dot com dot au Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Session related
PHP Version: 4.0.5 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-05-16 10:17 UTC] luci at conexim dot com dot au 
This is kind of similar to the old file upload problem, where you could set variables in a POST.

In some cases (depends on the way the code is written), if a site stores login status (eg. user name, etc) in session variables after an authorisation check, it is possible to pass values as the same-named session vars, and therefore actually bypass the authorisation step getting access to restricted areas.

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 [2001-05-16 10:19 UTC] luci at conexim dot com dot au 
Not really a bug, just an issue.
 [2001-05-16 10:35 UTC] cynic@php.net 
this could only happen with a misconfigured PHP - you would have to set it to register globals AND extract GET/POST data AFTER session data.

proper configuration is an admin reponsibility.
 
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