24284 : Claroline rqmkhtml.php file Parameter Traversal Arbitrary File Access
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
10	496	over 5 years ago	over 2 years ago	0 times	100%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2006-03-30	2006-03-30

Description

Claroline contains a flaw that allows a remote attacker to view arbitrary files outside of the web path. The issue is due to the 'rqmkhtml.php' script not properly sanitizing user input, specifically directory traversal style attacks (../../) supplied via the 'file' variable.

Classification

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

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.7.5 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Consortium Claroline

Claroline

1.7.4

References

Bugtraq ID: 17341 17343 17344
Secunia Advisory ID: 19461
CVE ID: 2006-1595 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 24285 24286
ISS X-Force ID: 25562 25563
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2006-1187
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1888.html
Generic Exploit URL: http://retrogod.altervista.org/claroline_174_incl_xpl.html
Vendor URL: http://www.claroline.net/
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://www.claroline.net/wiki/index.php/Changelog_1.7.x

Tools & Filters

	21167

Manual Testing Notes

Credit

rgod - rgod's Site

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-04-03 | Disagree?

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