Info

Disclosure

Jul 13, 2006

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

Phorum contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands. The issue is due to control.php not properly sanitizing user input supplied to an unspecified variable. This may allow an attacker to include a file from the local host that may contain arbitrary commands which will be executed by the vulnerable script.

Classification

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

Solution

Upgrade to version 5.1.15 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Brian Moon

Phorum

5.1.15

References

CVE ID: 2006-3615 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 21043
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0200.html
Vendor URL: http://www.phorum.org/
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?14,114358

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/27167