Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in PHP Director up to 0.21. The affected element is an unknown function of the file index.php. Such manipulation of the argument searching leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2009-0604. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in PHP Director up to 0.21 (Programming Language Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file index.php. The manipulation of the argument searching with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

SQL injection vulnerability in index.php in PHP Director 0.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the searching parameter.

The weakness was published 02/16/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-0604 since 02/16/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1505.

A public exploit has been developed by darkjoker in Perl and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. 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. By approaching the search of inurl:index.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 (8014) and SecurityFocus (BID 33694†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Programming Language Software

Name

• PHP Director

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21

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• open-source

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