UltimatePOS 2.5 /products unrestricted upload

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A vulnerability was found in UltimatePOS 2.5. It has been declared as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /products. Such manipulation leads to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2018-17139. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in UltimatePOS 2.5. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file /products. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

UltimatePOS 2.5 allows users to upload arbitrary files, which leads to remote command execution by posting to a /products URI with PHP code in a .php file with the image/jpeg content type.

The bug was discovered 08/25/2018. The weakness was published 09/17/2018 as EDB-ID 45253 as not defined exploit (Exploit-DB). The advisory is available at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-17139 since 09/17/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1608.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. 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 23 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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 vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (45253). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• UltimatePOS

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• 2.5

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