Numara FootPrints Arbitrary Command Execution
Secunia Advisory: SA28390
Release Date: 2008-01-21
Popularity: 3,393 views

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

Software:Numara FootPrints 7.x
Numara FootPrints 8.x

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Description:
Ricky Zhou has discovered some vulnerabilities in Numara FootPrints, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to various parameters e.g. "transcriptFile" in /MRcgi/MRchat.pl and "LOADFILE" in /MRcgi/MRABLoad2.pl is not properly sanitised before being used in a call to "open()". This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary commands using the "|" character.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 8.0 on Linux. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
-- Numara FootPrints 8.x --
Update to version 8.1.

-- Numara FootPrints 7.x --
Apply patches.
http://support.unipress.com/MRcgi/MRT...amp;MAXMININC=&MAJOR_MODE=DETAILS

Provided and/or discovered by:
Ricky Zhou


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