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Secunia Advisory SA31808

D-iscussion Board "topic" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA31808
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Release Date 2008-09-12
Last Update 2008-09-29
   
Popularity 4,240 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
D-iscussion Board 3.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-4075 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

SirGod has discovered a vulnerability in D-iscussion Board, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to the "topic" parameter in general/index.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources via directory traversal attacks.

Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.01. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.

Provided and/or discovered by
SirGod

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/6430

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