Claudio Klingler QuiXplorer up to 2.3 File Upload index.php memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Claudio Klingler QuiXplorer. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file index.php of the component File Upload. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-5005. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Claudio Klingler QuiXplorer. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file index.php of the component File Upload. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in QuiXplorer 2.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension using the upload action to index.php, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory.

The weakness was disclosed 12/24/2011 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-5005 since 12/24/2011. 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 exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. 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 X-Force (71323), Exploit-DB (18118) and OSVDB (78077†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Claudio Klingler

Name

• QuiXplorer

Version

• 1.0
• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.2.0
• 1.3.0
• 1.4
• 1.4.0
• 1.5
• 1.5.0
• 1.6
• 1.6.0
• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 2.0
• 2.1.1
• 2.2
• 2.3

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