VDB-84512 · BID 19776 · SA21703

ezContents shownews.php GLOBALS[language_home] privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in ezContents. Affected is an unknown function of the file shownews.php. Such manipulation of the argument GLOBALS[language_home] leads to privileges management. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in ezContents (affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the file shownews.php. The manipulation of the argument GLOBALS[language_home] with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 08/28/2006 by DarkFig (Website). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:shownews.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 SecurityFocus (BID 19776†), OSVDB (28326†) and Secunia (SA21703†). The entries VDB-32041, VDB-32040, VDB-32039 and VDB-84508 are pretty similar. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.0

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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08/28/2006 🔍
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05/08/2016 +3537 days 🔍
11/25/2018 +931 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: DarkFig
Status: Not defined

GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-84512
SecurityFocus: 19776 - Visualshapers EzContents GLOBALS[rootdp] Parameter Multiple Remote File Include Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21703 - ezContents Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 28326 - ezContents shownews.php GLOBALS[admin_home] Parameter Remote File Inclusion

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/08/2016 19:58
Updated: 11/25/2018 09:57
Changes: 05/08/2016 19:58 (50), 11/25/2018 09:57 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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