Asterisk Recording Interface Audio.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:17641

Info

Asterisk Recording Interface Audio.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 17641
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 21 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 21 2006 08:16PM
Credit: Francois Harvey <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Dan Littlejohn Asterisk Recording Interface 0.7.15
+ Asterisk@Home Asterisk@Home 2.6
Not Vulnerable: Dan Littlejohn Asterisk Recording Interface 0.10
+ Asterisk@Home Asterisk@Home 2.8

Discussion

Asterisk Recording Interface Audio.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Asterisk Recording Interface is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve arbitrary MP3, WAV, and GSM files from the vulnerable system in the context of the application. Attackers may also exploit this issue to determine the existence of arbitrary files that don't have MP3, WAV, or GSM filename extensions.

Information gained by exploiting this issue may aid malicious users in further attacks.

Exploit / POC

Asterisk Recording Interface Audio.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability may be exploited with a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

http://www.example.com/recordings/misc/audio.php?recording=/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/<mailbox>/INBOX/msg<messageid>.wav

Solution / Fix

Asterisk Recording Interface Audio.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
An updated version of Asterisk Recording Interface is available to address this issue.

Asterisk@Home version 2.8 reportedly contains a fixed version of ARI.


Dan Littlejohn Asterisk Recording Interface 0.7.15

References

Asterisk Recording Interface Audio.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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