Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in b2evolution, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "inc/CONTROL/import/import-mt.php" script that does not validate the "module_root_path" parameter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to include malicious files and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.

Affected Products

b2evolution version 1.8.5 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to b2evolution version 1.8.6 :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/evocms/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4938
http://b2evolution.net/news/2006/11/30/security_alert_import_mt_php
https://tiifp.org/tarkus/advisories/b2evolution111106_01.txt

Credits

Vulnerability reported by tarkus

ChangeLog

2006-12-11 : Initial release

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