Security Advisory SA38587 - Joomla AllVideos Plugin "file" Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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Joomla AllVideos Plugin "file" Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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SA38587

Release Date

2010-02-15

Last Update

2010-03-01

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Comments

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

AllVideos 3.x (plugin for Joomla)

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2010-0696 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in the AllVideos plugin for Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.

Input passed to the "file" parameter in plugins/content/jw_allvideos/includes/download.php is not properly sanitised before being used to read files. This can be exploited to read arbitrary files from local resources via directory traversal attacks.

Example:
http://[host]/plugins/content/jw_allvideos/includes/download.php?file=images/../../../../../etc/passwd

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 3.3 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by
Pouya Daneshmand

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Pouya Daneshmand:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/11447

JoomlaWorks:
http://www.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/77/34/

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Subject: Joomla AllVideos Plugin "file" Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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joomlaworks	RE: Joomla AllVideos Plugin "file" Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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Secunia Research	RE: Joomla AllVideos Plugin "file" Information Disclosure Vulnerability
	16th Feb, 2010 16:30
Score: 5 Posts: 7 User Since: 16th Feb 2010 System Score: N/A Location: Copenhagen, DK	As part of normal procedure, the vulnerability report was verified and confirmed to be valid before issuing a Secunia advisory. Note that we have just updated the advisory today with an example to clarify the problem.

joomlaworks

RE: Joomla AllVideos Plugin "file" Information Disclosure Vulnerability

17th Feb, 2010 20:44

Score: 6
Posts: 2
User Since: 15th Feb 2010
System Score: N/A
Location: GR
Last edited on 18th Feb, 2010 20:22

AllVideos v3.3 has just been released, permanently dealing with a security flaw discovered in version 3.0 to 3.2. You are strongly advised to upgrade immediately to v3.3 if you're already using v3.0 to v3.2.

The vulnerability discovered in versions 3.0. to 3.2 of the plugin can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information. For security reasons we will not be providing further details to safeguard users of affected versions.

If you are using AllVideos v1.x or v2.x there is no security concern to upgrade. You are however advised to upgrade to v3.3 if using Joomla! 1.5 to enjoy all the new features introduced in the v3 series.

Official announcement here: http://www.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/77/34/

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