Greg Matthews Classifieds classifieds.cgi Metacharacter privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Greg Matthews Classifieds (unknown version) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file classifieds.cgi. The manipulation as part of a Metacharacter leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

classifieds.cgi allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via shell metacharacters.

The weakness was disclosed 12/15/1999 (Website). The advisory is available at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0934. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11748 (Multiple Dangerous CGI Script Detection), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 854.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (3102) and Tenable (11748). The entries 14266, 14277, 14828 and 15063 are pretty similar.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1068

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Nessus ID: 11748
Nessus Name: Multiple Dangerous CGI Script Detection
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Snort ID: 854
Snort Message: SERVER-WEBAPP classifieds.cgi access
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12/15/1998 🔍
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05/23/2019 +1796 days 🔍

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Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-0934 (🔍)
X-Force: 3102 - Classifieds.cgi script allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files off servers
Vulnerability Center: 4722 - classifieds.cgi Allows Files Reading and Code Execution, High
SecurityFocus: 2020 - Greg Matthews Classifieds.cgi Metacharacter Vulnerability

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Created: 06/22/2014 16:00
Updated: 05/23/2019 06:48
Changes: 06/22/2014 16:00 (72), 05/23/2019 06:48 (1)
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