netVigilance Security Advisory 32

WSPortal version 1.0 Path Disclosure Vulnerability

Description:
WSPortal is a site management system coded in PHP/MySQL. It is capable of adding pages, adding news to pages, adding images to news articles, alerting the site or a specific ip address, private messaging system between administrators.

Successful exploitation requires PHP magic_quotes_gpc set to OFF.

External References:
Mitre CVE: CVE-2007-3127
NVD NIST: CVE-2007-3127
OSVDB: 34164


Summary:
WSPortal is a site management system coded in PHP/MySQL.
Security problem in the product allows attackers to gather the true path of the server-side script.

Release Date:
June 17 2007

Severity:
Risk: Low

CVSS Metrics:
Access Vector: Remote
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not-required
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: None
Availability Impact: None
Impact Bias: Normal
CVSS Base Score: 2.3

Target Distribution on Internet: Low

Exploitability: Functional Exploit
Remediation Level: Workaround
Report Confidence: Uncorroborated

Vulnerability Impact: Attack
Host Impact: Path disclosure.

SecureScout Testcase ID:
TC 17962

Vulnerable Systems:
WSPortal version 1.0

Vulnerability Type:
Program flaws - The product scripts have flaws which lead to Warnings or even Fatal Errors.

Vendor:
Chris Harvey

Vendor Status:
The Vendor has been notified several times on many different email addresses last on 6 June 2007. The Vendor has not responded. There is no official fix at the release of this Security Advisory.

Workaround:
Set display_errors = Off (php.ini file) or set magic_quotes_gpc = On (php.ini file).

Example:

REQUEST:
http://[TARGET]/[WSPORTAL-DIRECTORY]/content.php?page=';

REPLY:
<b>Warning</b>: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in <b>[DISCLOSED PATH][WSPORTAL-DIRECTORY]\content.php</b> on line <b>67</b><br /> <b>Warning</b>: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in <b>[DISCLOSED PATH][WSPORTAL-DIRECTORY]\content.php</b> on line <b>76</b><br />