The TRITON management console in Websense Web Security before 7.6 Hotfix 24 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and read arbitrary reports via a crafted uid field, in conjunction with a crafted userRoles field, in a cookie, as demonstrated by a request to explorer_wse/favorites.exe.
Weakness
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Websense_web_security | Websense | * | 7.6 (including) |
| Websense_web_security | Websense | 6.3.0 (including) | 6.3.0 (including) |
| Websense_web_security | Websense | 6.3.1 (including) | 6.3.1 (including) |
| Websense_web_security | Websense | 6.3.2 (including) | 6.3.2 (including) |
| Websense_web_security | Websense | 6.3.3 (including) | 6.3.3 (including) |
| Websense_web_security | Websense | 7.0 (including) | 7.0 (including) |
| Websense_web_security | Websense | 7.1 (including) | 7.1 (including) |
| Websense_web_security | Websense | 7.1.1 (including) | 7.1.1 (including) |
| Websense_web_security | Websense | 7.5 (including) | 7.5 (including) |
| Websense_web_security | Websense | 7.5.1 (including) | 7.5.1 (including) |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/114.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/115.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/151.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/194.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/57.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/593.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/633.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/650.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html