PEAR Pear Liveuser up to 0.16.8 liveuser.php path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in PEAR Pear Liveuser up to 0.16.8. This affects an unknown part of the file liveuser.php. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-0869. Moreover, an exploit is present. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in PEAR Pear Liveuser up to 0.16.8 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the file liveuser.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in the "remember me" feature in liveuser.php in PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) LiveUser 0.16.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine file existence, and possibly delete arbitrary files with short pathnames or possibly read arbitrary files, via a .. (dot dot) in the store_id value of a cookie.

The weakness was disclosed 02/23/2006 by James Bercegay with Gulftech (Website). The advisory is shared at securitytracker.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-0869 since 02/23/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

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

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (24852), Exploit-DB (43834), SecurityFocus (BID 16761†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1015659†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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08/05/2017 +877 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securitytracker.com⛔
Researcher: James Bercegay
Organization: Gulftech
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-0869 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-0869
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-28877
X-Force: 24852 - PEAR LiveUser liveuser.php information disclosure
SecurityFocus: 16761 - PEAR LiveUser Unauthorized File Access Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1015659 - PEAR LiveUser Input Validation Flaws in Processing Cookies Let Remote Users Determine File Existence and Delete Files
Vupen: ADV-2006-0697

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 11:11
Updated: 08/05/2017 09:26
Changes: 03/12/2015 11:11 (61), 08/05/2017 09:26 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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