Grant Horwood Webodex 1.0 includedir privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Grant Horwood Webodex 1.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation of the argument includedir causes privileges management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2001-1298. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to implement restrictive firewalling.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Grant Horwood Webodex 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument includedir with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Webodex PHP script 1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to include arbitrary files from remote web sites via an HTTP request that sets the includedir variable.

The weakness was released 10/02/2001 (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2001-1298. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 10412 (Grant Horwood Webodex Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability).

Proper firewalling of is able to address this issue.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (7215), SecurityFocus (BID 3385†), OSVDB (13090†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-6468†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-17449, VDB-17450, VDB-17451 and VDB-17452. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2001-1298 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2001-1298
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-17461
X-Force: 7215
SecurityFocus: 3385 - Grant Horwood Webodex Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
OSVDB: 13090 - Grant Horwood - Webodex - Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Issue
Vulnerability Center: 6468 - Grant Horwood Webodex 1.0 Allows Code Execution via $include Variable, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/09/2014 15:22
Updated: 09/27/2025 06:46
Changes: 07/09/2014 15:22 (61), 06/03/2019 16:11 (2), 09/27/2025 06:46 (18)
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