63116 : Quicksilver Forums Database Backup Predictable File Name Weakness
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
1	147	about 1 year ago	11 months ago	11 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2010-03-10	2010-03-12	2010-03-17	2010-08-31

Time to Patch	Time to Vendor Response
174 days	2 days

Description

Quicksilver Forums contains a flaw that may lead to an unauthorized information disclosure. The issue is triggered when automatic backups are enabled, which leads to predictable, world readable backups being created and potentially disclosing sensitive information to a remote attacker.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

QSF Portal users can upgrade to version 1.5 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Quicksilver Forums Development Team

Quicksilver Forums

1.4.2

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 38735 38736 38783
Related OSVDB ID: 63115 63117
Packet Storm: http://packetstormsecurity.org/1003-advisories/sa38735.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.org/1003-advisories/secunia-qfbidisclose.txt
Other Advisory URL: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-39
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://www.qsfportal.com/Changelog-1.5.txt
Vendor URL: http://www.quicksilverforums.com/

Credit

Secunia Research

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