__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Members Area System 'view_func.php' Vulnerability [Security Focus 27244] January 22, 2008 20:00 GMT Number S-126 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Members Area System is prone to a remote file-include vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. PLATFORM: Mansion Products Members Area System 1.7 DAMAGE: Remote File Include vulnerability. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. An attacker can exploit this issue to ASSESSMENT: include an arbitrary remote file containing malicious PHP code and execute it in the context of the webserver process. This may facilitate a compromise of the application and the underlying system; other attacks are also possible. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-126.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27244/discuss ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Security Focus 27244 *****] Members Area System 'view_func.php' Remote File Include Vulnerability Members Area System is prone to a remote file-include vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this issue to include an arbitrary remote file containing malicious PHP code and execute it in the context of the webserver process. This may facilitate a compromise of the application and the underlying system; other attacks are also possible. This issue affects Members Area System 1.7; other versions are also likely affected. Bugtraq ID: 27244 Class: Input Validation Error CVE: Remote: Yes Local: No Published: Jan 11 2008 12:00AM Updated: Jan 18 2008 06:28PM Credit: ShipNX is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability. Vulnerable: Mansion Productions Member Area System (MAS) 1.7 Mansion Productions Member Area System (MAS) 0 [***** End Security Focus 27244 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Security Focus for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. CIAC services are available to DOE, DOE contractors, and the NIH. 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