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Secunia Advisory SA9060

Xoops Tutorials Execution of Arbitrary Code

Secunia Advisory

SA9060

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Release Date

2003-06-18

Popularity

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

Tutorials 2.x (module for XOOPS)

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Xoops Tutorials allowing malicious users to upload and execute arbitrary code.

The problem is that the upload function, which allows users to upload images, doesn't verify the file type. This allows malicious users to upload any file type including PHP files.

Version 2.0 has been reported vulnerable.

Solution
Version 2.1 is not vulnerable.

Provided and/or discovered by
ac3, GUSG Team

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