Observium Professional/Enterprise/Community 20.8.10631 inc.php format path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Observium Professional, Enterprise and Community 20.8.10631. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file inc.php. The manipulation of the argument format with the input ../ results in path traversal. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2020-25134. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Observium Professional, Enterprise and Community 20.8.10631. Affected is some unknown functionality of the file inc.php. The manipulation of the argument format with the input value ../ leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in Observium Professional, Enterprise & Community 20.8.10631. It is vulnerable to directory traversal and local file inclusion due to the fact that there is an unrestricted possibility of loading any file with an inc.php extension. Inclusion of other files (even though limited to the mentioned extension) can lead to Remote Code Execution. This can occur via /settings/?format=../ URIs to pages/settings.inc.php.

The weakness was disclosed 09/25/2020. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-25134 since 09/04/2020. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. A authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Observium

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• Community
• Enterprise
• Professional

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• 20.8.10631

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