n.runs-SA-2007.005 - PHProjekt 5.2.0 - Cross Site Request Forgery
n.runs AG
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n.runs-SA-2007.005 14-Mar-2007
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Vendor: Mayflower GmbH, http://www.mayflower.de
Affected Products: PHProjekt 5.2.0
Vulnerability: Cross Site Request Forgery
Risk: HIGH
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Vendor communication:
2006/12/31 initial notification of Mayflower
2007/01/02 Mayflower Response
2007/01/02 PGP keys exchange
2007/01/02 PoCs sent to Mayflower
2007/01/11 Mayflower confirmed the bugs
2007/01/30 Mayflower fixed the bugs and sends RC1
2007/01/30 n.runs informs Mayflower about a persisting XSS
vulnerability
2007/02/02 Mayflower confirmed the bug
2007/02/08 Mayflower fixed the bugs and sends RC2
2007/02/12 n.runs informs Mayflower about a persisting XSS
vulnerability
2007/02/15 Mayflower confirmed the bug
2007/02/20 Mayflower fixed the bug and sends RC3
2007/02/21 n.runs verifies RC3 and reported a possible flaw
within the new XSS protection library
2007/03/14 PHProjekt 5.2.1 available
2007/03/14 Coordinated disclosure
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Overview:
Quoting http://www.phprojekt.com/features.php?&newlang=eng
"PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group
activities and to share informations and document via the web.
Components of PHProjekt: Group calendar, project management, time card
system, file management, contact manager, mail client and many other
modules.
PHProjekt supports many protocols like ldap, xml/soap and webdav and
is available for 38 languages and 9 databases."
Description:
In detail, the following flaws were determined during a quick source
code review for the modules Projects, Contacts, Helpdesk, Notes, Search
and Mail.
During the validation the php.ini setting "magic_quotes_gpc" was
deactivated.
PHProjekt using an internal a CSRF protection (see function
check_csrftoken() in lib/lib.inc.php).
By calling this function the return value is always true. Due to incorrect
output validation in many modules, such as Mail or Filemanager,
Cross Site Request Forgery is possible.
Finally, the Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability also affect the
summary page, which is PHProjekt's index page.
Remarks
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There may be other modules which are affected, but they have not been
subject to review at this point.
Solution:
The vulnerabilities were reported on Dec 31 2006 and an update has
been released on Mar 14 2007.
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Credit:
Bugs found by Alexios Fakos of n.runs AG.
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References:
http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_phprojekt_csrf.php
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