Info

Disclosure

Nov 29, 2005

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

Orca Knowledgebase contains a flaw that may allow an attacker to carry out an SQL injection attack. The issue is due to the knowledgebase.php script not properly sanitizing user-supplied input to the qid variable. This may allow an attacker to inject or manipulate SQL queries in the back-end database.

Classification

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

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.1c or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Brian Huisman

Orca Knowledgebase

2.1b

References

Bugtraq ID: 15637
Secunia Advisory ID: 17805
CVE ID: 2005-3942 (see also: NVD)
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2005-2642
Packet Storm: http://packetstormsecurity.org/0511-advisories/sa17805.txt
Other Advisory URL: http://pridels.blogspot.com/2005/11/orca-knowledgebase-sql-vuln.html
Vendor URL: http://www.greywyvern.com/orca#know

Credit

r0t - krustevsgooglemail.com - UNSECURED SYSTEMS

Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/21198