phpCollab CMS 2.5 emailusers.php id Local Privilege Escalation

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in phpCollab CMS 2.5 (Content Management System). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file /phpcollab/users/emailusers.php. The manipulation of the argument id with an unknown input leads to a unknown weakness. The impact remains unknown.

The weakness was published 08/08/2016 by Benjamin Kunz Mejri with Vulnerability Lab as 1898 as not defined mailinglist post (Full-Disclosure). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at seclists.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:phpcollab/users/emailusers.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The code used by the exploit is:

http://phpcollab.localhost:8080/phpcollab/users/emailusers.php?id=1'[SQL-INJECTION VULNERABILITY!]&&PHPSESSID=ghtu76jt276nji04lua07930t5

The best possible mitigation is suggested to be Workaround. The mailinglist post contains the following remark:

The vulnerability can be patched by usage of a prepared statement in the emailusers.php file GET method request. Disallow special chars and escape the input and outpit context entries to prevent further sql-injection attacks.

vulnerability-lab.com is providing further details.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.9

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.9
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Local Privilege Escalation
CWE: Unknown
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Workaround
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Timelineinfo

08/08/2016 🔍
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08/17/2016 +9 days 🔍
03/28/2019 +953 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 1898
Researcher: Benjamin Kunz Mejri
Organization: Vulnerability Lab
Status: Not defined
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 08/17/2016 12:53
Updated: 03/28/2019 15:19
Changes: 08/17/2016 12:53 (47), 03/28/2019 15:19 (1)
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