A vulnerability was found in LimeSurvey 1.49 Rc2 (Survey Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file File.php of the component Spreadsheet. The manipulation of the argument homedir with an unknown input leads to a file inclusion vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-73. The product allows user input to control or influence paths or file names that are used in filesystem operations. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in LimeSurvey (aka PHPSurveyor) 1.49RC2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the homedir parameter to (1) OLE/PPS/File.php, (2) OLE/PPS/Root.php, (3) Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer.php, or (4) OLE/PPS.php in admin/classes/pear/; or (5) Worksheet.php, (6) Parser.php, (7) Workbook.php, (8) Format.php, or (9) BIFFwriter.php in admin/classes/pear/Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/.

The weakness was released 07/06/2007 (Website). The advisory is available at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-3632 since 07/09/2007. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a exploit are known.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:File.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

A possible mitigation has been published 4 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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• Survey Software

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• LimeSurvey

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• 1.49 Rc2

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• open-source

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