PHP Arena pafiledb 3.1 Error Message pafiledb.php action information disclosure

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in PHP Arena pafiledb 3.1 (Programming Language Software). This issue affects some unknown processing of the file pafiledb.php of the component Error Message Handler. The manipulation of the argument action with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

pafiledb.php in PaFileDB 3.1 allows remote attackers to gain sensitive information via an invalid or missing action parameter, which reveals the path in an error message when it cannot include a login.php script.

The bug was discovered 01/31/2005. The weakness was released 05/02/2005 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at marc.theaimsgroup.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-0326 since 02/10/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:pafiledb.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11806 (paFileDB <= 3.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (1)), 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (19175) and Tenable (11806). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 21799, 24064, 24618 and 24617.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592

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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 11806
Nessus Name: paFileDB <= 3.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (1)
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07/24/2003 🔍
01/01/2005 +527 days 🔍
01/31/2005 +30 days 🔍
02/10/2005 +10 days 🔍
03/23/2005 +41 days 🔍
05/02/2005 +40 days 🔍
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03/10/2015 +3599 days 🔍
05/31/2019 +1542 days 🔍

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Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-0326 (🔍)
X-Force: 19175
Vulnerability Center: 7421 - PaFileDB 3.1 Information Disclosure, Medium
SecurityFocus: 7183
OSVDB: 15033 - paFileDB login.php script path disclosure

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Created: 03/10/2015 23:05
Updated: 05/31/2019 00:18
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (65), 05/31/2019 00:18 (5)
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