Ultimate Bulletin Board Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

BID:991

Info

Ultimate Bulletin Board Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 991
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 13 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 13 2000 12:00AM
Credit: This was first posted to Bugtraq by Sergei A. Golubchik <[email protected]> on February 13, 2000. The second exploit for this problem was reported by H D Moore <[email protected]> in a post to Bugtraq on February 14, 2000.
Vulnerable: Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.43
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Exploit / POC

Ultimate Bulletin Board Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

See discussion.

Solution / Fix

Ultimate Bulletin Board Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Solution:
A quick fix is to add "$" to the end of the expression, ie:

if ($ThreadFile =~ /\d\d\d\d\d\d\.ubb$/) { ...

This will require that the value of $Threadfile end in ".ubb" to match.

This vulnerability was verified to have been fixed in the shareware version (and presumably the commercial as well).

References

Ultimate Bulletin Board Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

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