CVE-2006-7074
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedadmin.php in SmartSiteCMS 1.0 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges by setting the userName cookie.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceSmartSiteCMS 1.0 admin.php validates authentication by trusting a user-supplied 'userName' cookie value without server-side verification, allowing attackers to set this cookie to an admin username (e.g., 'admin') to bypass authentication and gain full administrator privileges.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 1.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- Partial
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify SmartSiteCMS installationLocate the SmartSiteCMS application files on the server. Check for the presence of admin.php and related CMS files. Confirm the installed version by examining version files, headers, or metadata if available.Affected if SmartSiteCMS version 1.0 is installed and the admin.php file exists in the web-accessible directory.
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Verify admin.php cookie authentication mechanismExamine the admin.php source code to determine if it reads a 'userName' cookie value and uses it for authentication decisions without server-side session validation.Affected if The code reads a userName cookie and grants administrative access based solely on that client-supplied value without server-side verification.
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Check cookie-based authentication bypassWith a non-authenticated browser or HTTP client, attempt to set the cookie 'userName=admin' (or any known admin username) and access admin.php. Observe if administrative access is granted without proper login.Affected if Setting the userName cookie to an admin username grants full administrator privileges without valid credentials.
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Review authentication session handlingInspect how the application handles user sessions. Determine if session tokens are generated server-side and validated on each request, or if client-supplied cookie values are trusted for authentication.Affected if The application trusts user-supplied cookie values (such as userName) for authentication rather than using server-validated session tokens.
A user is affected if SmartSiteCMS 1.0 is running and admin.php grants administrative access by trusting a userName cookie value without server-side validation.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement proper server-side session-based authentication using server-generated session tokens, validate session existence and role server-side, and remove any trust of client-supplied cookie values for authentication decisions.
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- Review / QA3.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2006-7074 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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