ikonboard Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

BID:2157

Info

ikonboard Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 2157
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2001-0076
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Dec 28 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 04:46AM
Credit: This vulnerability was announced by Gijs Hollestelle <[email protected]> on December 28, 2000.
Vulnerable: Ikonboard.com ikonboard 2.1.7 b
- BSDI BSD/OS 4.0.1
- Debian Linux 2.2
- Digital (Compaq) TRU64/DIGITAL UNIX 5.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2
- HP HP-UX 11.11
- IBM AIX 4.3.3
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.4.3
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.8
- Redhat Linux 7.0
- SCO eServer 2.3
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

ikonboard Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

ikonboard Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Solution:
This code was sent by Gijs Hollestelle <[email protected]> and is reportedly the official vendor fix to the problem code:

From register.cgi:

@params = $query->param;
foreach $param(@params) {
$theparam = $query->param($param);
$theparam = &unHTML("$theparam");
${$param} = $theparam;
}

Replace with:

for ('inmembername','password','emailaddress',
'showemail','homepage','aolname','icqnumber','location','interests',
'signature','timedifference','useravatar','action') {
next unless defined $_;
next if $_ eq 'SEND_MAIL';
$tp = $query->param($_);
$tp = &unHTML("$tp");
${$_} = $tp;
}

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ikonboard Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

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