PHP iCalendar up to 2.21 publish.ical.php privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in PHP iCalendar up to 2.21. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file publish.ical.php. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-1291. The attack can be initiated remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in PHP iCalendar up to 2.21 (Programming Language Software). This affects some unknown processing of the file publish.ical.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

publish.ical.php in Jim Hu and Chad Little PHP iCalendar 2.21 and earlier does not require authentication for write access to the calendars directory, which allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP scripts via a WebDAV PUT request with a filename containing a .php extension and a trailing null character.

The bug was discovered 03/21/2006. The weakness was shared 03/15/2006 by rgod (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at vupen.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-1291 since 03/19/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:publish.ical.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21091 (PHP iCalendar publish.ical.php Arbitrary File Upload), 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.

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 databases at X-Force (25388), Exploit-DB (1586), Tenable (21091), SecurityFocus (BID 17129†) and OSVDB (24031†). The entry VDB-29260 is related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 21091
Nessus Name: PHP iCalendar publish.ical.php Arbitrary File Upload
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: rgod
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2006-1291 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1291
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29259
X-Force: 25388
SecurityFocus: 17129 - php iCalendar Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability
Secunia: 19285
OSVDB: 24031 - PHP iCalendar publish.ical.php Crafted PUT Request Arbitrary File Upload
Vulnerability Center: 10687 - iCalendar Remote Unauthenticated File Upload, High
Vupen: ADV-2006-1019

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19 PM
Updated: 06/18/2024 01:04 PM
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 PM (66), 06/15/2019 05:09 PM (11), 06/18/2024 01:04 PM (17)
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