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[SA16979] PostNuke Local File Inclusion and Comment Bypass Vulnerabilities

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 03:39:13 CDT


TITLE:
PostNuke Local File Inclusion and Comment Bypass Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16979

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16979/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
PostNuke 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/350/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in PostNuke, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions
and disclose sensitive information.

1) A local file inclusion vulnerability in the GeSHi library can be
exploited to disclose the content of arbitrary files via the
"pn_bbcode" module.

For more information:
SA16898

2) An error in the comments module can be exploited by malicious
people to add comments.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 0.761.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.761.
http://downloads.postnuke.com/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Maksymilian Arciemowicz
2) Devin Hayes

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://news.postnuke.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2726
http://news.postnuke.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2727

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA16898:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16898/

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