PHProjekt up to 3.1a upload privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in PHProjekt up to 3.1a. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function upload. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

The upload function in PHPProjekt 2.0 through 3.1 does not properly verify certain variables related to uploaded data, which allows remote attackers to cause PHPProjekt to process arbitrary files.

The bug was discovered 04/24/2002. The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2002 by Ulf Harnhammar (Website). The advisory is available at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability was named CVE-2002-1759 since 06/21/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful 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 was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 251 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (8944). The entries 19404, 19403, 19401 and 19400 are pretty similar.

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

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Remote: Yes

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04/23/2002 🔍
04/24/2002 +1 days 🔍
04/25/2002 +1 days 🔍
12/31/2002 +250 days 🔍
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06/21/2005 +903 days 🔍
12/21/2006 +548 days 🔍
08/04/2014 +2783 days 🔍
07/12/2019 +1803 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Researcher: Ulf Harnhammar
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2002-1759 (🔍)
X-Force: 8944
Vulnerability Center: 13525 - PHProjekt File Uploading allows to Read Files, Medium
SecurityFocus: 4597 - PHProjekt File Read Vulnerability
OSVDB: 59533 - PHPProjekt, Reading Local Files with the Upload Function

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/04/2014 16:46
Updated: 07/12/2019 12:50
Changes: 08/04/2014 16:46 (57), 07/12/2019 12:50 (4)
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