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phpManta "file" Parameter Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA22734
Release Date: 2006-11-10
Last Update: 2006-11-16
Popularity: 3,931 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:phpManta 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-5866


Description:
ajann has discovered a vulnerability in phpManta, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of sensitive information.

Input passed to the "file" parameter in Mdoc/view-sourcecode.php is not properly sanitised before being used to display files with syntax highlighting. This can be exploited to gain access to arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.

Gaining access to files having other file extensions than ".php" requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

The vulnerability is confirmed in versions 1.0.2 and 1.0.3. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
ajann

Changelog:
2006-11-16: Added CVE reference.


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