ProjectSend up to 375 File Upload process-upload.php code injection

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A vulnerability was found in ProjectSend up to 375. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file process-upload.php of the component File Upload. Such manipulation leads to code injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2014-9567. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in ProjectSend up to 375 (Project Management Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file process-upload.php of the component File Upload. The manipulation 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. CVE summarizes:

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in process-upload.php in ProjectSend (formerly cFTP) r100 through r561 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a file with a PHP extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the upload/files/ or upload/temp/ directory.

The weakness was published 01/07/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-9567 since 01/07/2015. 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. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

A public exploit has been developed by Fady Mohammed Osman and been published even before and not 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 36 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:process-upload.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 (99548), Exploit-DB (35424) and OSVDB (116469†). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Project Management Software

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• ProjectSend

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• 375

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