Rich White School Data Nav page code injection

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A vulnerability was found in Rich White School Data Nav. It has been classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument page leads to code injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-2641. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Rich White School Data Nav (unknown version). This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation of the argument page with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in app_and_readme/navigator/index.php in School Data Navigator allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the page parameter. NOTE: this can also be leveraged to include and execute arbitrary local files via .. (dot dot) sequences.

The weakness was disclosed 07/28/2009 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-2641 since 07/28/2009. 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 T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed by Br0ly and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 48 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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 vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (8924). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Rich White

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• School Data Nav

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