Secunia Security Advisory - Digital Security Research Group has discovered a vulnerability in PowerBook, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
PowerBook "page" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29480
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29480/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
PowerBook 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/18029/
DESCRIPTION:
Digital Security Research Group has discovered a vulnerability in
PowerBook, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
sensitive information.
Input passed to the "page" parameter in pb_inc/admincenter/index.php
is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can
be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.
Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled
and that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.21. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Digital Security Research Group
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Mar/0308.html
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