Joomla CMS up to 1.5.3 htaccess config

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Joomla CMS. Impacted is an unknown function of the component htaccess. The manipulation leads to config. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2008-3228. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Joomla CMS (Content Management System). This issue affects some unknown processing of the component htaccess. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a config vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-16. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Joomla! before 1.5.4 does not configure .htaccess to apply certain security checks that "block common exploits" to SEF URLs, which has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.

The weakness was released 07/18/2008 (oss-sec). The advisory is shared at openwall.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-3228 since 07/18/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592.004 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.5.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (44206). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-43300, VDB-43299 and VDB-43298. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Joomla

Name

• CMS

Version

• 1.0
• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.03
• 1.5
• 1.5.0 Beta
• 1.5.0 Beta1
• 1.5.0 Beta2
• 1.5.0 Rc1
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.joomla.org/

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