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Chora CVS Viewer Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA11858
Release Date: 2004-06-14
Popularity: 6,129 views

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

Software:Chora CVS Viewer 1.x

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Description:
Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in Chora, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error within the diff viewing functionality for CVS and SVN repositories, which can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands.

Successful exploitation allows uploading and executing arbitrary files combined with PHP's file upload functionality (default configuration).

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2.1 and prior.

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