A vulnerability was found in TinyWebGallery 1.8.3 (Photo Gallery Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation of the argument command with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

TinyWebGallery 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the command parameter to (1) inc/filefunctions.inc or (2) info.php.

The weakness was presented 10/09/2012 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-5347 since 10/09/2012. 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 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 (72157) and Exploit-DB (18322).

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• Photo Gallery Software

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• TinyWebGallery

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• 1.8.3

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