Product: Mambo Open Source v4.5
              Mambo Open Source v4.6 (CVS)
Vendor: Miro International Pty Ltd.
Author: FraMe ( frame at kernelpanik.org )
URL: http://www.kernelpanik.org

CONTENTS

1. Overview
2. Description.
3. Details
4. Patches.

1. Overview.

Mambo Open Source is an, open source, modular, web content management
system (CMS), written in Php with a MySql database in backend.

More info: http://www.mamboserver.com

2. Description.

Mambo OS allow remote command execution in ./modules/mod_mainmenu.php
Anybody can inject a url in $mosConfig_absolute_path and obtain command
execution
with web server privileges ( usually nobody ).

3. Details.

Mambo OS v4.5 and v4.6
from ./modules/mod_mainmenu.php:
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<?php

(..)

// $module is defined in the calling function
// $params is defined in the calling function

require_once( "$mosConfig_absolute_path/modules/mod_mainmenu.class.php" );

(..)
?>


4. Patches

a) Php globals off (Default in Php > 4.2)

b) Unofficial patch for mod_mainmenu.php can be downloaded from:
     http://www.kernelpanik.org/code/kernelpanik/mambo.zip

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[ FraMe - frame at kernelpanik.org ]
[ URL - http://frame.lifefromthenet.com ]
[ Kernelpanik - http://www.kernelpanik.org ]
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