Akiva Webboard 2.90 view.php topic path traversal

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A vulnerability has been found in Akiva Webboard 2.90 and classified as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the file view.php. The manipulation of the argument topic leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-2600. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in Akiva Webboard 2.90 (Forum Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the file view.php. The manipulation of the argument topic 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. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in view.php in Webboard 2.90 beta and earlier allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the topic parameter.

The weakness was disclosed 07/27/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-2600 since 07/27/2009. 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. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. By approaching the search of inurl:view.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 (50861) and Exploit-DB (8823). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Forum Software

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• Akiva

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• Webboard

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• 2.90

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