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v-creator VCEngine.php Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19453
Release Date: 2006-03-31
Last Update: 2006-04-06
Popularity: 5,521 views

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

Software:v-creator 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1599


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

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the "enrypt()" and "decrypt()" functions in VCEngine.php. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands by supplying specially crafted encryption strings via a script using the affected functionality.

Successful exploitation requires that the configuration option "VC_CRYPTO_METHOD" is set to "OPENSSL".

Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.3-pre3.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2006-04-06: Added CVE reference.


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