TITLE:
CuteNews "archive" Disclosure of Sensitive Information Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19289

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19289/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
CuteNews 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1798/

DESCRIPTION:
Hamid Ebadi has discovered a vulnerability in CuteNews, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to the "archive" parameter in a POST request or in a
cookie isn't properly sanitised before being used to display file
content. This can be exploited to disclose the content of certain
files via directory traversal attacks (e.g. "users.db.php").

Successful exploitation requires that the file being read has a
special format and that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.4.1 and has also
been reported in prior versions. Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Hamid Ebadi

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://hamid.ir/security/cutenews.txt

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