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Secunia Advisory SA21531

Mambo mosListMessenger Component File Inclusion
Secunia Advisory SA21531
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2006-08-17
Last Update 2006-08-25
   
Popularity 12,178 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
mosListMessenger (component for Mambo)

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-4229 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Crackers_Child has reported a vulnerability in the mosListMessenger component for Mambo, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "mosConfig_absolute_path" parameter in components/com_lm/archive.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.


Solution
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.

Provided and/or discovered by
Crackers_Child

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