[Positive Technologies SA:2009-13] TinX CMS 3.x SQL Injection Vulnerability
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(PT-2009-13) Positive Technologies Security Advisory
TinX CMS SQL Injection vulnerability
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---[ Affected Software ]
TinX CMS
Versions 3.x prior to 3.5.1
Product Link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133415
---[ Severity Rating ]
Severity: High
Impact: SQL Injection
Attack Vector: Remote
CVSS v2:
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)
CVE: CVE-2009-0825
---[ Software Description ]
TinX CMS is a content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as
a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage
and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and
their associated images).
---[ Vulnerability Description ]
Positive Technologies Research Team has discovered a SQL Injection
vulnerability in TinX CMS.
User input passed to the "id" parameter is not properly sanitized. This can
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the "id"
parameter.
Example:
http://[server]/system/rss.php?id=1'SQL-code
SQL injection is an attack technique that can be used to extract, modify, add
or delete information from database servers that are used by vulnerable web
applications. SQL injection vulnerabilities are caused by an unsecured
programming technique that allows client-supplied data to interfere with the
syntax of SQL queries. SQL is a programming language that is used by
applications to communicate with database systems.
---[ Solution ]
Update to version 3.5.1.
---[ Disclosure Timeline ]
04/03/2009 - Vendor is notified
04/03/2009 - Vendor response
04/03/2009 - Requested status update from vendor
05/03/2009 - Vendor releases fixed version and details
06/03/2009 - Public disclosure
---[ Credits ]
This vulnerability was discovered by Dmitriy Evteev (Positive Technologies
Research Team) using professional network security scanner MaxPatrol.
---[ References ]
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-13
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp
Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies
Research Team:
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp
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