22258 : TinyPHPForum profile.php uname Variable Traversal Arbitrary File Manipulation
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
5	384	over 6 years ago	about 1 year ago	1 times	100%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date	Vendor Ack Date
2006-01-05	2006-01-05	2008-02-05

Keywords

EV0014

Description

TinyPHPForum contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to view or create files in arbitrary locations on the server's file system. The issue is triggered when the 'uname' variable contains file system traversal characters, such as dot-dot-slash submitted to the 'profile.php' script. It is possible that the flaw may allow the web server to view or create files in arbitrary locations in the file system. resulting in a loss of confidentiality and integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Discontinued Product
Exploit: Exploit Public
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

The vendor has discontinued this product and therefore has no patch or upgrade that mitigates this problem. It is recommended that an alternate software package be used in its place.

Products

Ralph Capper

TinyPHPForum

3.6

References

Security Tracker: 1015436
Secunia Advisory ID: 18293
CVE ID: 2006-0104 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 22256 22257
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2006-0054
Keyword: EV0014
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-01/0065.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.evuln.com/vulns/14/summary.html
Vendor URL: http://www.ralpharama.co.uk/tpf/

Manual Testing Notes

Credit

Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu - eVuln

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-01-06 | Disagree?

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