12925 : ZeroBoard _head.php Traversal Arbitrary File Access
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
3	1160	over 7 years ago	over 3 years ago	0 times	90%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2004-12-31	2005-01-13	2005-01-13

Time to Exploit
13 days

Description

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

Classification

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

Solution

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

Products

NZEO.com

ZeroBoard

4.1pl5

References

Security Tracker: 1012884
Related OSVDB ID: 12926 12927 12928 12929 12930 12931 12932
CVE ID: 2005-0379 (see also: NVD)
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-01/0156.html
Vendor URL: http://www.zeroboard.com/

Manual Testing Notes

Credit

Jeremy Bae - swbaestgsecurity.com - STG Security, Inc.

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-06-07 | Disagree?

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