Vulnerability Note VU#282403

AdCycle does not adequately validate user input thereby allowing for SQL injection

Original Release date: 24 Sep 2002 | Last revised: 24 Sep 2002

Overview

AdCycle does not adequately filter user input, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary MySQL queries.

Description

AdCycle is a shareware banner ad management system written in Perl and designed to work with a MySQL database. AdCycle does not adequately filter multiple unspecified CGI variables before passing them to MySQL queries. As a result, attackers may execute arbitrary queries on the MySQL database.

Impact

Remote attackers may read or modify data stored in AdCycle's MySQL database and other databases to which the AdCycle CGI process has access.

Solution

The CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem.

Systems Affected (Learn More)

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
AdCycleAffected-20 Sep 2002
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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

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References

Credit

Thanks to GOBBLES Security Advisory for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum.

Other Information

  • CVE IDs: Unknown
  • Date Public: 25 Dec 2001
  • Date First Published: 24 Sep 2002
  • Date Last Updated: 24 Sep 2002
  • Severity Metric: 4.28
  • Document Revision: 5

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