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>> AForum "CommonAbsDir" Parameter Handling Remote PHP File Inclusion Vulnerability

Title : AForum "CommonAbsDir" Parameter Handling Remote PHP File Inclusion Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1739
CVE ID : CVE-2007-2596
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-05-09


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A vulnerability has been identified in AForum, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "common/func.php" script when processing the "CommonAbsDir" parameter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to include malicious PHP scripts and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.

Affected Products

AForum version 1.33 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.40 :
http://www.agner.org/software/msgbrd2/aforum.zip

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1739

Credits

Vulnerability reported by ThE TiGeR

ChangeLog

2007-05-09 : Initial release

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