Aborior Encore Web Forum display.cgi File privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Aborior Encore Web Forum. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file display.cgi. Performing a manipulation of the argument File results in privileges management. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2004-1888. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Aborior Encore Web Forum (Forum Software) (affected version unknown). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality of the file display.cgi. The manipulation of the argument file with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

display.cgi in Aborior Encore WebForum allows remote to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the file variable.

The weakness was disclosed 04/04/2004 by Schizoprenic (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-1888 since 05/04/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 12127 (Aborior Encore WebForum display.cgi file Parameter Command Execution), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 12053 (Aborior Encore Web Forum Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability).

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 databases at X-Force (15725), Exploit-DB (23907), Tenable (12127), SecurityFocus (BID 10040†) and OSVDB (16831†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 12127
Nessus Name: Aborior Encore WebForum display.cgi file Parameter Command Execution
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Schizoprenic
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1888 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1888
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22947
X-Force: 15725
SecurityFocus: 10040 - Aborior Encore Web Forum Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
OSVDB: 16831 - Aborior Encore WebForum display.cgi file Variable Command Execution
SecurityTracker: 1009652
Vulnerability Center: 4138 - Encore Web Forum Allows Command Execution, High

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 03/09/2015 15:52
Updated: 07/06/2025 13:51
Changes: 03/09/2015 15:52 (70), 05/21/2019 06:45 (8), 08/27/2024 00:36 (19), 07/06/2025 13:51 (4)
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