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A vulnerability was found in FOSS Gallery 1.0. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file processFiles.php of the component File Upload. The manipulation leads to input validation. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-4509. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in FOSS Gallery 1.0 (Photo Gallery Software) and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file processFiles.php of the component File Upload. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in processFiles.php in FOSS Gallery Admin and FOSS Gallery Public 1.0 beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the root directory.

The weakness was published 10/09/2008 by Pepelux (Website). The advisory is shared for download at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-4509 since 10/09/2008. 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 current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 11/06/2024).

A public exploit has been developed by Pepelux in Perl and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:processFiles.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 (45683), Exploit-DB (6670) and SecurityFocus (BID 31574†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Photo Gallery Software

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• FOSS Gallery

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• 1.0

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