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Secunia Advisory SA35057

bitweaver "version" Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA35057
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2009-05-12
Last Update 2010-07-02
   
Popularity 3,383 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Manipulation of data
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 Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Software:
bitweaver 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-1677 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-1678 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in bitweaver, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain data.

Input passed to the "version" parameter in boards/boards_rss.php is not properly verified before being used to create files. This can be exploited to create files on the system via directory traversal attacks.

Note: Malicious users can inject e.g. Smarty template code into the created file, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.6. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Update to version 2.7.

Provided and/or discovered by
Nine:Situations:Group::bookoo

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8659

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