phpSecurePages Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

BID:2638

Info

phpSecurePages Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 2638
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 23 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 23 2001 12:00AM
Credit: Discovered by SecureReality and first published in an advisory on April 23, 2001.
Vulnerable: Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.24 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.23 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.22 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.21 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.20 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.19 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.18 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.17 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.16 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.15 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.14 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.13 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.12 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.11 Beta
Not Vulnerable: Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.26 Beta
Paul Kruyt phpSecurePages 0.25 Beta

Discussion

phpSecurePages Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

phpSecurePages is a PHP-based web authentication system that allows administrators to 'secure' pages without using mechanisms such as HTTP authentication.

This set of scripts contains a vulnerability that may allow remote users to execute commands on the vulnerable webserver. phpSecurePages fails to ensure that a variable internal to the scripts, READ_CONFIG, is not supplied by a remote user. As a result, remote users may be able to manipulate the interpretation of the script using this variable, possibly injecting PHP code that will be executed.

Exploitation of this vulnerability may yield interactive local access to the target host for the attacker.

Exploit / POC

phpSecurePages Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

phpSecurePages Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an fixed version of phpSecurePages.

SecureReality has released a source code patch that will eliminate this vulnerability.

References

phpSecurePages Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

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