eFiction 1.0 authors.php sid sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in eFiction 1.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file authors.php. The manipulation of the argument sid with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in eFiction 1.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) let parameter in a viewlist action to authors.php and (2) sid parameter to viewstory.php.

The weakness was disclosed 11/25/2005 by rgod (Website). The advisory is available at rgod.altervista.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-4169 since 12/11/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:authors.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 20349 (eFiction < 2.0.2 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, Disc)), 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 (23373) and Tenable (20349). The entries 27427, 27426, 27425 and 27424 are pretty similar.

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Class: Sql injection
CWE: CWE-89 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
ATT&CK: T1505

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Nessus ID: 20349
Nessus Name: eFiction < 2.0.2 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, Disc)
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Advisory: rgod.altervista.org
Researcher: rgod
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-4169 (🔍)
X-Force: 23373
SecurityTracker: 1015273
SecurityFocus: 15568 - eFiction Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 17777 - eFiction Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 21119 - eFiction authors.php let Parameter SQL Injection
Vupen: ADV-2005-2606

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 03/17/2019 11:08
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (74), 03/17/2019 11:08 (3)
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