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TWiki "%INCLUDE" Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA16980
Release Date: 2005-09-28
Popularity: 10,312 views

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

Software:TWiki

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in TWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "rev" attribute in the "%INCLUDE" variable isn't properly sanitised before being used in a shell expression. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands via e.g. the "|" pipe character.

Example:
%INCLUDE{ "Main.TWikiUsers" rev="2|[code]" }%

This is related to:
SA16820

The vulnerability has been reported in versions TWikiRelease03Sep2004, TWikiRelease02Sep2004, TWikiRelease01Sep2004, and TWikiRelease01Feb2003.

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