miniPortail 1.9/2.0/2.1/2.2 search.php lng path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in miniPortail 1.9/2.0/2.1/2.2. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file search.php. The manipulation of the argument lng leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-6167. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in miniPortail 1.9/2.0/2.1/2.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the file search.php. The manipulation of the argument lng 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, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in search.php in miniPortail 2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the lng parameter.

The weakness was disclosed 02/19/2009 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-6167 since 02/19/2009. 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. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:search.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 (46079), Exploit-DB (6821) and SecurityFocus (BID 31895†). The entry VDB-46608 is pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• miniPortail

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• 1.9
• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2

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