A vulnerability was found in Czaries CzarNews 1.12/1.13/1.14/1.20 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file cn_users.php. The manipulation 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:

SQL injection vulnerability in cn_users.php in CzarNews 1.20 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a recook cookie.

The weakness was presented 09/24/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-4203 since 09/24/2008. 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. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1505.

A public exploit has been developed by StAkeR in Perl and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 9 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:cn_users.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 (45127), Exploit-DB (6462) and SecurityFocus (BID 31182†).

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• CzarNews

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• 1.12
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