OpenX up to 2.8.10 adclick.php dest redirect

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in OpenX up to 2.8.10. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file adclick.php. Such manipulation of the argument dest leads to redirect. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2014-2230. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in OpenX up to 2.8.10 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file adclick.php. The manipulation of the argument dest with an unknown input leads to a redirect vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-601. A web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a Redirect. This simplifies phishing attacks. Impacted is integrity.

The weakness was released 10/16/2014 by Jing Wang as OpenX Open Redirect Vulnerability as not defined mailinglist post (Full-Disclosure). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-2230 since 02/26/2014. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1204.001. The following code is the reason for this vulnerability:

function MAX_redirect($url)
{
if (!preg_match('/^(?:javascript|data):/i', $url)) {
header('Location: '.$url);
MAX_sendStatusCode(302);
}

The header() function sends a raw HTTP header to a client without any checking of the "$dest" parameter at all.

By approaching the search of inurl:adclick.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 vulnerability database at X-Force (97621). packetstormsecurity.com is providing further details. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Name

• OpenX

Version

• 2.8
• 2.8.1
• 2.8.2
• 2.8.3
• 2.8.4
• 2.8.5
• 2.8.6
• 2.8.7
• 2.8.8
• 2.8.9
• 2.8.10

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• open-source

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