Freenews Aff_News.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	20795
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 30 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Oct 31 2006 05:07AM
Credit:	MoHaNdKo is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	FreeNews FreeNews 1.1
Not Vulnerable:

Freenews Aff_News.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

Freenews is prone to a remote file-include vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to compromise the application and the underlying system; other attacks are also possible.

Freenews Aff_News.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

http://www.example.com/path/aff_news.php?chemin=shell.txt?

Freenews Aff_News.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

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

Freenews Aff_News.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

References:

• Freenews Home Page (Freenews)
  
• freenews---> fileinclude ([email protected])