Avenger's News System Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

BID:4149

Info

Avenger's News System Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4149
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2002-0306
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 21 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 10:56AM
Credit: This issue was submitted to BugTraq on February 21st, 2002 by "b0iler _" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Avenger's News System Avenger's News System 2.1 1
- Apache Apache 1.3.22
- Apache Apache 1.3.20
- Apache Apache 1.3.19
- Apache Apache 1.3.18
- Apache Apache 1.3.17
Avenger's News System Avenger's News System 2.0 1
- Apache Apache 1.3.22
- Apache Apache 1.3.20
- Apache Apache 1.3.19
- Apache Apache 1.3.18
- Apache Apache 1.3.17
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Avenger's News System Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Avenger's News System (ANS) is a simple form-based web site management tool written in Perl. It will run on most Unix and Linux variants.

ANS does not filter shell metacharacters from web requests, making it prone to remote command execution attacks. As a result, a remote attacker may execute commands on the underlying shell of the host running the vulnerable software. Commands will be executed with the privileges of the webserver process.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to gain local access to the host running the vulnerable software.

Exploit / POC

Avenger's News System Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

This issue may be exploited with a web browser.

Solution / Fix

Avenger's News System Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches 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]>.

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