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Vulnerability Note VU#757181

TWiki does not properly sanitize URI parameters

Overview

A lack of input validation in the TWiki revision control function may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

I. Description

TWiki is a web-based collaborative publishing environment. TWiki does not sanitize user-controlled URI parameters supplied to the revision control function for malicious content. Specifically, the rev parameter is not filtered for shell metacharacters before being used to construct a shell command. By sending a specially crafted URI to a system running TWiki, an remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary commands on that system.

Note that exploits are publicly available for this vulnerability. More detailed information is available in the TWiki Security Alert.

II. Impact

By sending a specially crafted URI to TWiki, a remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the CGI process, typically nobody.

III. Solution

Apply hotfix

TWiki has release a hotfix to address this issue.

Restrict access

Restricting access to TWiki to only trusted users will reduce the chances of exploitation.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
TWikiVulnerable23-Sep-2005

References


http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithRev
http://secunia.com/advisories/16820/
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Sep/1014918.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14834
http://twiki.org

Credit

This vulnerability was reported by Sap. TWiki credits PeterThoeny, Crawford Currie, Sven Dowideit, Colas Nahaboo, Will Norris, Richard Donkin, B4dP4nd4 and Florian Weimer for providing information regarding this issue.

This document was written by Jeff Gennari.

Other Information

Date Public:2005-09-14
Date First Published:2005-09-20
Date Last Updated:2005-10-04
CERT Advisory: 
CVE-ID(s):CAN-2005-2877
NVD-ID(s):CAN-2005-2877
US-CERT Technical Alerts: 
Metric:12.57
Document Revision:46

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