BitmixSoft PHP-Lance 1.52 show.php in path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in BitmixSoft PHP-Lance 1.52. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file show.php. Such manipulation of the argument in leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-2923. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in BitmixSoft PHP-Lance 1.52 (Programming Language Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file show.php. The manipulation of the argument in 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. CVE summarizes:

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in BitmixSoft PHP-Lance 1.52 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) language parameter to show.php and (2) in parameter to advanced_search.php.

The weakness was disclosed 08/18/2009 (Website). The advisory is available at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-2923 since 08/20/2009. 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. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by jetli007 and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:show.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 (9444) and OSVDB (57246†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Programming Language Software

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• BitmixSoft

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• PHP-Lance

Version

• 1.52

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