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Phgstats "phgdir" File Inclusion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18346
Release Date: 2006-01-10
Last Update: 2006-08-04
Popularity: 4,644 views

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

Software:Phgstats 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0164


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

Input passed to the "phgdir" parameter in "phgstats.inc.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local resources.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 0.5.1.

Solution:
Update to version 0.5.1 or later.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfi...group_id=109955&package_id=118793

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Bjoern Knorr.

Changelog:
2006-08-04: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=384232


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