A vulnerability has been identified in FOAFgen, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "redir.php" script that does not validate the "foaf" parameter before being passed to a "readfile()" call, which could be exploited by malicious users to access and read the contents of arbitrary files.

Affected Products

FOAFgen version 0.3 and prior

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4009

Credits

Vulnerability reported by DarkFig

Changelog

2006-10-11 : Initial release

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