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ocPoral CMS 8.x | Session Hijacking Vulnerability
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1. OVERVIEW

ocPoral CMS 8.x and lower versions are vulnerable to Session Hijacking flaw which could allow attackers to compromise administrator session.


2. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

ocPortal is the website Content Management System (a CMS) for building and maintaining a dynamic website. ocPortal's powerful feature-set means there's always a way to accomplish your vision. Not only does ocPortal's CMS have all the features you'd expect: for instance photo galleries, news, file downloads and community forums/chats, but it does so whilst meeting the highest accessibility and professional standards. It is also smart enough to go beyond page management, to automatically handle search engine optimisation, and provide aggressive hack attack prevention.


3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION

The ocPoral CMS generates 7-digit session IDs for logged-in users; thus it is possible to work out a valid session ID through brute forcing. Successful hijacking requires the "Enforce IP addresses for sessions" option be disabled. However, when a user's IP is highly dynamic, this option will likely to be disabled as it would invalidate logged-in sessions. In other way, if a user and an attacker happened to be within the same subnet, the attack would succeed regardless of the "Enforce IP" setting turning on. 


4. VERSIONS AFFECTED

Tested on version 8.1.2


5. PROOF-OF-CONCEPT/EXPLOIT

sample session cookie: ocp_session=8711789


6. SOLUTION 

No fix is available as of 2012-08-19. 
Workaround is to set enabled for the option, "Enforce IP addresses for sessions".


7. VENDOR

ocPortal Development Team
http://www.ocportal.com/


8. CREDIT

This vulnerability was discovered by Aung Khant, http://yehg.net, YGN Ethical Hacker Group, Myanmar.


9. DISCLOSURE TIME-LINE

2012-07-29: notified vendor, vendor did not plan to release fix because of default deployed workaround
2012-08-19: vulnerability disclosed


10. REFERENCES

Original Advisory URL: http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/%5Bocportal_8x%5D_session_hijacking_vulnerability


#yehg [2012-08-19]