oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- Sahana

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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:09:36 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Sahana

Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Steve, vendors,
> 
>   Greg Miernicki reported a security issue in Sahana disaster management
> system:
> 
> Sending a specially-crafted URL (with null character included
> in the string) to Sahana, would allow an attacker to access any
> file on the web server.
> 
> More from Greg:
> 
> "The first issue would allow an attacker to touch/modify any file on the 
> system.
>  Essentially the issue is that get, post, and requests aren't sanitized or
>  unescaped."

Just small correction - above statement was mentioned by David Nalley, not by Greg
(this correction done to be exact && not to insert statements into mouth of person(s),
  who didn't pronounce them).

Other bits are valid.

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team


> 
> References:
> -----------
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530255
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=5d9043b70910191044l4bb0178fs563a5128a0f5db01%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=sahana-maindev 
> 
> 
> Upstream patch:
> ---------------
> http://sahana.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sahana/sahana-phase2/www/index.php?r1=1.83&r2=1.84 
> 
> 
> PoC:
> ----
> http://sahana/index.php?stream=text&mod=/../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00 
> 
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE identifier?
> 
> Thanks && Regards, Jan.
> -- 
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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