Oliver May Athena PHP Website Administration 0.1a athena.php athena_dir code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oliver May Athena PHP Website Administration 0.1a. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file athena.php of the component Administration. This manipulation of the argument athena_dir causes code injection. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2005-3860. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oliver May Athena PHP Website Administration 0.1a (Programming Language Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file athena.php of the component Administration. The manipulation of the argument athena_dir with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in athena.php in Oliver May Athena PHP Website Administration 0.1a allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the athena_dir parameter.

The weakness was presented 11/29/2005 by beford (Website). The advisory is shared at vupen.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-3860 since 11/29/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:athena.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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 Exploit-DB (26598), SecurityFocus (BID 15574†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1015278†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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11/26/2005 🔍
11/28/2005 +2 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: beford
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-3860 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-3860
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-27133
SecurityFocus: 15574 - Athena PHP Website Administration Remote File Include Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1015278 - Athena Include File Bug Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
Vupen: ADV-2005-2599

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 03/17/2025 19:34
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (54), 07/27/2017 08:51 (6), 03/17/2025 19:34 (24)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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