Phlatline Personal Information Manager 1.01 notes.php ID path traversal

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A vulnerability has been found in Phlatline Personal Information Manager 1.01 and classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file notes.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument ID results in path traversal. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2008-4528. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Phlatline Personal Information Manager 1.01. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file notes.php. The manipulation of the argument id with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in notes.php in Phlatline s Personal Information Manager (pPIM) 1.01 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the id parameter in an edit action.

The weakness was shared 10/09/2008 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-4528 since 10/09/2008. 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 T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed by JosS in Perl and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:notes.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 X-Force (45681), Exploit-DB (6667) and SecurityFocus (BID 31571†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Phlatline

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• Personal Information Manager

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• 1.01

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