Title : BEA WebLogic Authentication Provider Privilege Escalation Issue VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0600 CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-05-24
Technical Description
A vulnerability was identified in BEA WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express, which may be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is due to a design error when creating and deleting groups, which can unintentionally increase the privileges of a specific group. This vulnerability affects sites that are using the WebLogic Authentication provider as the default authentication provider in a security realm.
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