Xero Portal admin_board.php phpbb_root_path privileges management
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A vulnerability was found in Xero Portal (affected version not known). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file admin_board.php. The manipulation of the argument phpbb_root_path
with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The weakness was presented 01/25/2007 by xoron (Mehmet Ince) (Website). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-0561 since 01/30/2007. 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 MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.
A public exploit has been developed by Mehmet Ince 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 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:admin_board.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 (31767) and Exploit-DB (3192). See 34689, 84966, 84967 and 84969 for similar entries.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.9
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Exploiting
Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1068
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Mehmet Ince
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Timeline
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Sources
Advisory: archives.neohapsis.comResearcher: xoron (Mehmet Ince)
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2007-0561 (🔍)
X-Force: 31767
SecurityFocus: 22227 - Digitalxero Xero Portal PHPBB_Root_Path Multiple Remote File Include Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 23952 - Xero Portal "phpbb_root_path" File Inclusion Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 31979 - Xero Portal admin_board.php phpbb_root_path Parameter Remote File Inclusion
Vupen: ADV-2007-0338
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 05/08/2016 21:27Updated: 08/08/2022 17:52
Changes: 05/08/2016 21:27 (64), 12/08/2018 14:35 (3), 08/08/2022 17:52 (3)
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