The SWORD Project Diatheke Front End up to 1.5.9 diatheke.pl range input validation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in The SWORD Project Diatheke Front End up to 1.5.9. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file diatheke.pl. The manipulation of the argument range leads to input validation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2008-0932. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in The SWORD Project Diatheke Front End up to 1.5.9 (Project Management Software). This issue affects an unknown code of the file diatheke.pl. The manipulation of the argument range with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

diatheke.pl in The SWORD Project Diatheke 1.5.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the range parameter.

The bug was discovered 02/18/2008. The weakness was presented 02/25/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared at redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-0932 since 02/25/2008. 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 are known, but no exploit is available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 7 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 31381 (GLSA-200803-06 : SWORD: Shell command injection), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 1 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (40665), Tenable (31381), SecurityFocus (BID 27987†), OSVDB (42213†) and Secunia (SA25400†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 31381
Nessus Name: GLSA-200803-06 : SWORD: Shell command injection
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OpenVAS ID: 60442
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1508-1 (diatheke)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: redhat.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-0932 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-0932
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-41213

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X-Force: 40665
SecurityFocus: 27987 - The SWORD Project Diatheke Unspecified Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 25400
OSVDB: 42213 - SWORD range command execution
Vulnerability Center: 17752 - The SWORD Project Diatheke <=1.5.9 Remote Code Execution, High
Vupen: ADV-2008-0670

Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 13:43
Updated: 08/06/2019 08:08
Changes: 03/16/2015 13:43 (74), 08/06/2019 08:08 (9)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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