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>> Flat Chat "name" Parameter Handling Remote PHP Command Injection Vulnerability

Title : Flat Chat "name" Parameter Handling Remote PHP Command Injection Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0871
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1394
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-03-08


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A vulnerability has been identified in Flat Chat, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to an input validation error in the "startsession.php" script that does not validate the "name" parameter before being written to the "online.txt" file (included via "users.php"), which could be exploited by remote attackers to inject and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.

Affected Products

Flat Chat version 2.0 and prior

Solution

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

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0871

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Dj7xpl

ChangeLog

2007-03-08 : Initial release

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