Secunia Security Advisory - Beenu Arora has discovered a vulnerability in FAR-PHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
FAR-PHP "c" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31563
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31563/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
FAR-PHP 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/19633/
DESCRIPTION:
Beenu Arora has discovered a vulnerability in FAR-PHP, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
Input passed to the "c" parameter in index.php is not properly
verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to
include arbitrary files from local resources via directory traversal
attacks and URL-encoded NULL bytes.
Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is
disabled.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.00 full edition. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Beenu Arora
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