CVE-2005-1708

Blue Coat Reporter <7.1.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2005-1708. PoCs published by Oliver Karow.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a privilege escalation vulnerability in Blue Coat Reporter by manipulating a user addition form to create an administrator account. It uses a crafted POST request with valid session credentials to exploit improper authentication checks.

Description

templates.admin.users.user_form_processing in Blue Coat Reporter before 7.1.2 allows authenticated users to gain administrator privileges via an HTTP POST that sets volatile.user.administrator to true.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Oliver Karow · textremotewindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25697

This exploit demonstrates a privilege escalation vulnerability in Blue Coat Reporter by manipulating a user addition form to create an administrator account. It uses a crafted POST request with valid session credentials to exploit improper authentication checks.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Auth Bypass
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Blue Coat Reporter < 7.1.2
Auth required
Prerequisites: Valid authenticated session (session_id, authusername7, authpassword7)
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/15452
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111695726810435&w=2
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/16763
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13723
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0589

Scores

EPSS 0.0117
EPSS Percentile 63.4%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
bluecoat/reporter < 7.1.1
Published May 24, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026