PostNuke 0.760 Rc3 pnadminapi.php skin path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in PostNuke 0.760 Rc3 (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file pnadminapi.php. The manipulation of the argument skin with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Directory traversal vulnerability in pnadminapi.php in the Xanthia module in PostNuke 0.760-RC3 allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the skin parameter.

The bug was discovered 05/21/2005. The weakness was shared 05/24/2005 by Maksymilian Arciemowicz as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-1699 since 05/24/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:pnadminapi.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18360 (PostNuke <= 0.760 RC4a Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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 (20696) and Tenable (18360). The entries 25305, 25303, 25302 and 25228 are related to this item.

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
ATT&CK: T1006

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Nessus ID: 18360
Nessus Name: PostNuke <= 0.760 RC4a Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: Maksymilian Arciemowicz
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-1699 (🔍)
X-Force: 20696
Vulnerability Center: 8227 - Directory Traversal in PostNuke via pnadminapi.php in the Xanthia Module, Medium
SecurityFocus: 13706 - PostNuke Multiple Remote Input Validation Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: 16785 - CVE-2005-1699 - PostNuke - Directory Traversal Issue

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Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 06/02/2019 09:01
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (64), 06/02/2019 09:01 (8)
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