A vulnerability was found in EkinBoard 1.1.0 (Forum Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component File Upload. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in EkinBoard 1.1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading an avatar file with an executable extension followed by a safe extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in uploaded/avatars/.

The weakness was shared 09/02/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-7157 since 09/02/2009. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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 (39507) and Exploit-DB (4859). The entry 49783 is related to this item.

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• EkinBoard

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• 1.1.0

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