Potato-scripts Potato News 1.0.0 admin.php cookie path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Potato-scripts Potato News 1.0.0. This issue affects an unknown code of the file admin.php. The manipulation of the argument cookie with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin.php in Potato News 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the user cookie parameter.

The weakness was disclosed 02/24/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-0722 since 02/24/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by x0r and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available 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 14 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:admin.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 vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (8032).

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: x0r
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Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2009-0722 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 33729 - Potato News 'user' Cookie Parameter Local File Include Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 12/03/2017 15:22
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (50), 12/03/2017 15:22 (9)
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