ZH2004-09SA (security advisory): PhpNewsManager Remote arbitrary files retrieving Discovered: 02 february 2004 Vendor Contacted: 10 february 2004 Published: 23 february 2004 Name: PhpNewsManager Affected Systems: 1.46 Issue: Remote file retrieving Author: G00db0y from Zone-h Security Labs - g00db0y@zone-h.org - zetalabs@zone-h.org Vendor: http://www.skintech.org Description *********** Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in PhpNewsManager. There is a vulnerability in the current version of PhpNewsManager that allows an attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from the webserver with its priviledges. "phpNewsManager is the ultimate news manager for your website. The script is a whole solution for managing websites and supports many features with multi-level user access." Details ******* It's possibile for a remote attacker to retrieve any file from a webserver. For example try this: http://address/directory/functions.php?clang=../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd Solution: ********* The vendor has been contacted and a patch was not yet produced. G00db0y from Zone-h Security Labs - g00db0y@zone-h.org - zetalabs@zone-h.org http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=4024/
