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A vulnerability was found in PHPDirector 0.21. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file config.php. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-3530. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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A vulnerability was found in PHPDirector 0.21. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown code of the file config.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

PHPDirector 0.21 and earlier stores the admin account name and password in config.php, which allows local users to gain privileges by reading this file.

The weakness was presented 07/03/2007 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-3530 since 07/03/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

A public exploit has been developed by Kw3[R]Ln and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. 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:config.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 (35222), Exploit-DB (4139) and OSVDB (39718†). See VDB-37607 for similar entry. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• PHPDirector

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• 0.21

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