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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:19:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...re.org>
To: maric_sasa@...oo.com
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: ZoneX 1.0.3 - Publishers Gold Edition Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability


>This vulnerability is not that dangerous because, firstly, if you want
>to exploit it, you must have exact file tree and correct name of the
>malicious script because that variable is never used alone but always
>in concatanation with script name and generic extension

In a typical PHP exploit scenario, the attacker could merely add a
null byte ("%00") to the phpbb_root_path parameter, which would then
cause the include call to ignore this extra file tree/name
information.  Is there some reason why a null byte wouldn't work in
this situation?

- Steve

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