bugtraq - ZH2004-09SA (security advisory): PhpNewsManager Remote arbitrary files retrieving

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 17:58:27 -0000
From: ZetaLabs <zetalabs@...e-h.org>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: ZH2004-09SA (security advisory): PhpNewsManager Remote arbitrary
    files retrieving

ZH2004-09SA (security advisory): PhpNewsManager Remote arbitrary files retrieving

Discovered: 02 february 2004

Vendor Contacted: 10 february 2004

Published: 23 february 2004

Name: PhpNewsManager

Affected Systems: 1.46

Issue: Remote file retrieving

Author: G00db0y from Zone-h Security Labs - g00db0y@...e-h.org - zetalabs@...e-h.org

Vendor: http://www.skintech.org

Description

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Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in PhpNewsManager. There is a vulnerability in the current version of PhpNewsManager that allows an attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from the webserver with its priviledges.
"phpNewsManager is the ultimate news manager for your website. The script is a whole solution for managing websites and supports many features with multi-level user access."

Details

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It's possibile for a remote attacker to retrieve any file from a webserver.

For example try this:

http://address/directory/functions.php?clang=../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

Solution:

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The vendor has been contacted and a patch was not yet produced.

G00db0y from Zone-h Security Labs - g00db0y@...e-h.org - zetalabs@...e-h.org

http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=4024/