Joomla! Remote File Upload Vulnerability And Information Disclosure Weakness

BID:35780

Info

Joomla! Remote File Upload Vulnerability And Information Disclosure Weakness

Bugtraq ID: 35780
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 22 2009 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 03 2009 05:27PM
Credit: Patrice Lazareff, Juan Galiana Lara
Vulnerable: Joomla Joomla 1.5.12
Joomla Joomla 1.5.11
Joomla Joomla 1.5.10
Joomla Joomla 1.5.9
Joomla Joomla 1.5.8
Joomla Joomla 1.5.7
Joomla Joomla 1.5.6
Joomla Joomla 1.5.5
Joomla Joomla 1.5.4
Joomla Joomla 1.5.3
Joomla Joomla 1.5.2
Joomla Joomla 1.5.1
Not Vulnerable: Joomla Joomla 1.5.13

Discussion

Joomla! Remote File Upload Vulnerability And Information Disclosure Weakness

Joomla! is prone to a remote file-upload vulnerability and an information-disclosure weakness.

Attackers can exploit these issues to obtain sensitive information or to upload arbitrary code and execute it in the context of the webserver process. This may facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation; other attacks are also possible.

These issues affect Joomla! 1.5.x (prior to 1.5.13).

Exploit / POC

Joomla! Remote File Upload Vulnerability And Information Disclosure Weakness

Attackers can use a browser to exploit these issues.

The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/joomla-1.5.12/libraries/joomla/utilities/compat/php50x.php
http://www.example.com/joomla-1.5.12/libraries/joomla/client/ldap.php
http://www.example.com/joomla-1.5.12/libraries/joomla/html/html/content.php

The following exploit is available for the file-upload issue:

Solution / Fix

Joomla! Remote File Upload Vulnerability And Information Disclosure Weakness

Solution:
The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for details.


Joomla Joomla 1.5.1

Joomla Joomla 1.5.10

Joomla Joomla 1.5.11

Joomla Joomla 1.5.12

Joomla Joomla 1.5.2

Joomla Joomla 1.5.3

Joomla Joomla 1.5.4

Joomla Joomla 1.5.5

Joomla Joomla 1.5.6

Joomla Joomla 1.5.7

Joomla Joomla 1.5.8

Joomla Joomla 1.5.9

References

Joomla! Remote File Upload Vulnerability And Information Disclosure Weakness

References:

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