vendor:
PHPix
by:
SecurityFocus
4.3
CVSS
MEDIUM
Arbitrary File Access
22
CWE
Product Name: PHPix
Affected Version From: N/A
Affected Version To: N/A
Patch Exists: N/A
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit:
N/A
Other Scripts:
N/A
Tags: N/A
CVSS Metrics: N/A
Nuclei References:
N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: N/A
2002
PHPix Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability
PHPix is a web-based photo-album system written in PHP. It is vulnerable to an attack that allows a malicious remote user to view arbitrary files on the target webserver with the privileges of the webserver. The problem is that '../' character sequences can be supplied by the user in an http variable that is used to reference a file on the webservers filesystem. As a result, the attacker can construct a path relative to the current working directory of the webserver using '../'s and then the target filename/path to read any readable (to the uid of the httpd process) file on the filesystem. The information gained may make it easier to compromise the system in other ways.
Mitigation:
Ensure that user input is properly sanitized and validated before being used to access files on the filesystem.
