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Secunia Advisory SA19604

Dokeos "topic" Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA19604
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Release Date 2006-04-11
Last Update 2006-05-15
   
Popularity 8,733 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Manipulation of data
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Dokeos 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

Alvaro Olavarria has discovered a vulnerability in Dokeos, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "topic" parameter in viewtopic.php is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Example:
http://[host]/claroline/phpbb/viewtopic.php?cidReq=[course]&gidReq=&forum=1&0&forumview=threaded&topic=1[code]

This may be related to:
SA9090

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.6.4. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
The vulnerability has been fixed in an updated 1.6.4 version.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Alvaro Olavarria

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