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CuteNews Multiple Script Traversal Privilege Escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 20137

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Synopsis

The remote web server contains a PHP application that is affected by a directory traversal flaw.

Description

The version of CuteNews installed on the remote host fails to sanitize input to the 'template' parameter of the 'show_archives.php' and 'show_news.php' scripts. An attacker can exploit this issue to read arbitrary files and possibly even execute arbitrary PHP code on the remote host, subject to the privileges of the web server user id.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Nov/16

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20137

File Name: cutenews_dir_traversal.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 11/4/2005

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: www/cutenews

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3507

BID: 15295