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A vulnerability was found in W2b phpEmployment 1.8. It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown functionality of the file auth.php of the component File Upload. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in auth.php in phpEmployment 1.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension during a regnew action, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in photoes/.

The weakness was disclosed 12/23/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-6920 since 08/10/2009. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by ahmadbady and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:auth.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 (47592), Exploit-DB (7563), SecurityFocus (BID 33000†), OSVDB (50981†) and Secunia (SA33268†).

Productinfo

Vendor

• W2b

Name

• phpEmployment

Version

• 1.8

CPE 2.3info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.9

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.9
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: ahmadbady
Download: 🔍
Google Hack: 🔍

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

12/23/2008 🔍
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12/26/2008 +3 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-6920 (🔍)
X-Force: 47592 - phpEmployment auth.php file upload
SecurityFocus: 33000 - W2B phpEmployment 'auth.php' Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability
Secunia: 33268 - phpEmployment File Upload Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 50981 - phpEmployment auth.php File Upload Arbitrary PHP Code Execution
Vupen: ADV-2008-3508

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 03:15 PM
Updated: 11/20/2024 11:50 PM
Changes: 03/18/2015 03:15 PM (62), 11/20/2018 10:50 PM (7), 11/20/2024 11:50 PM (22)
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Cache ID: 18:843:40

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