19522 : Avi Alkalay contribute.cgi/contribute.pl template Variable Arbitrary File Retrieval
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
3	1021	over 6 years ago	over 3 years ago	1 times	90%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2005-09-12	2005-09-12	2005-09-25

Time to Exploit
13 days

Description

Celular contribute.cgi or contribute.pl scripts contains a flaw that allows a remote attacker to traverse outside of the web path. The issue is due to the contribute.pl or contribute.cgi script not properly sanitizing user input, specifically traversal style attacks (../../) supplied via the template variable. It's possible that multiple files can be read via the contribdir variable.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Technical

contribute.cgi and contribute.pl are the same CGI program with different file extensions. One may be installed as "Celular" and one as "Contribute".

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades, patches, or workarounds available to correct this issue.

Products

Avi Alkalay	contribute.pl	16 Jun 2002
Avi Alkalay	contribute.cgi	16 Jun 2002

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 16895
Related OSVDB ID: 19519 19520 19521 19522 19879
Vendor URL: http://www.alkalay.net/software/
Other Advisory URL: http://www.cirt.net/advisories/alkalay.shtml

Tools & Filters

	19780

Manual Testing Notes

Credit

Sullo - sullocirt.net - cirt.net

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