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Mambo MultiBanners Component File Inclusion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA21168
Release Date: 2006-07-24
Last Update: 2006-07-28
Popularity: 7,237 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:MultiBanners 1.x (component for Mambo)

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-3846


Description:
Blue|Spy has reported a vulnerability in the MultiBanners component for Mambo, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "mosConfig_absolute_path" parameter in administrator/components/com_multibanners/extadminmenus.class.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code by including files from local or external resources.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 1.0.1. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Blue|Spy

Changelog:
2006-07-28: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://solpotcrew.org/adv/BlueSpy-adv-multibanners.txt


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