A vulnerability was found in OpenX. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the file admin/plugin-preferences.php. The manipulation of the argument group with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in OpenX before 2.8.10 revision 82710 allow remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the group parameter to (1) plugin-preferences.php or (2) plugin-settings.php in www/admin, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-7376. NOTE: this can be leveraged using CSRF to allow remote unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files.

The weakness was released 07/03/2013 with High-Tech Bridge SA as confirmed mailinglist post (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at seclists.org. The public release was coordinated with the project team. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2013-3514 since 05/08/2013. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed by High-Tech Bridge SA and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at htbridge.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:admin/plugin-preferences.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at htbridge.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (26624). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 9328, 9329, 9330 and 9332.

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• OpenX

Version

• 2.4
• 2.4.4
• 2.4.5
• 2.4.6
• 2.4.7
• 2.4.8
• 2.4.9
• 2.4.10
• 2.4.11
• 2.6.0
• 2.6.1
• 2.6.2
• 2.6.3
• 2.6.4
• 2.6.5
• 2.7.29
• 2.8
• 2.8.1
• 2.8.2
• 2.8.3
• 2.8.4
• 2.8.5
• 2.8.6
• 2.8.7
• 2.8.8
• 2.8.9
• 2.8.10

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• open-source

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