A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in McGallery 0.5b (Photo Gallery Software). Affected is an unknown part of the file download.php. The manipulation of the argument filename with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

download.php in McGallery 0.5b allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and obtain script source code via the filename parameter.

The weakness was published 03/16/2007 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-1478 since 03/16/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Piker and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:download.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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 (33004), Exploit-DB (3494) and SecurityFocus (BID 22989†).

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• 0.5b

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