PEAR LiveUser Unauthorized File Access Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	16761
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 21 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Feb 23 2006 05:32PM
Credit:	James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	PEAR PEAR::LiveUser 0.16.8
Not Vulnerable:	PEAR PEAR::LiveUser 0.16.9

PEAR LiveUser Unauthorized File Access Vulnerability

LiveUser is prone to an unauthorized file-access vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the package to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this issue to delete arbitrary files in the context of the webserver process and confirm the existence of arbitrary files.

PEAR LiveUser Unauthorized File Access Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

PEAR LiveUser Unauthorized File Access Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an update to address this issue. Please see the referenced vendor advisory for further information.


PEAR PEAR::LiveUser 0.16.8

• PEAR LiveUser-0.16.9.tgz
  http://pear.php.net/get/LiveUser-0.16.9.tgz

PEAR LiveUser Unauthorized File Access Vulnerability

References:

• PEAR LiveUser File Access Vulnerabilities (GulfTech Security)
  
• LiveUser Changelog (LiveUser)
  
• LiveUser Homepage (PEAR)