CVE-2014-9567 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in process-upload.php in ProjectSend (formerly cFTP) r100 through r561 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a file with a PHP extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the upload/files/ or upload/temp/ directory.

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in process-upload.php in ProjectSend (formerly cFTP) r100 through r561 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a file with a PHP extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the upload/files/ or upload/temp/ directory.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Demo Examples

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CWE-94

This example attempts to write user messages to a message file and allow users to view them.


               
}
echo "Message Saved!<p>\n";
include($MessageFile);

While the programmer intends for the MessageFile to only include data, an attacker can provide a message such as:


               
message=%3C?php%20system(%22/bin/ls%20-l%22);?%3E

which will decode to the following:


               
<?php system("/bin/ls -l");?>

The programmer thought they were just including the contents of a regular data file, but PHP parsed it and executed the code. Now, this code is executed any time people view messages.

Notice that XSS (CWE-79) is also possible in this situation.

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CWE-94

edit-config.pl: This CGI script is used to modify settings in a configuration file.


               
}
# code to add a field/key to a file goes here
# code to set key to a particular file goes here
# code to delete key from a particular file goes here
eval($code);# this is super-efficient code, especially if you have to invoke# any one of dozens of different functions!
handleConfigAction($configfile, param('action'));
print "No action specified!\n";

The script intends to take the 'action' parameter and invoke one of a variety of functions based on the value of that parameter - config_file_add_key(), config_file_set_key(), or config_file_delete_key(). It could set up a conditional to invoke each function separately, but eval() is a powerful way of doing the same thing in fewer lines of code, especially when a large number of functions or variables are involved. Unfortunately, in this case, the attacker can provide other values in the action parameter, such as: add_key(",","); system("/bin/ls"); This would produce the following string in handleConfigAction(): config_file_add_key(",","); system("/bin/ls"); Any arbitrary Perl code could be added after the attacker has "closed off" the construction of the original function call, in order to prevent parsing errors from causing the malicious eval() to fail before the attacker's payload is activated. This particular manipulation would fail after the system() call, because the "_key(\$fname, \$key, \$val)" portion of the string would cause an error, but this is irrelevant to the attack because the payload has already been activated.

Overview

Type

ProjectSend

First reported 10 years ago

2015-01-07 18:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-08 01:29:00

Affected Software

ProjectSend 100

100

ProjectSend 102

102

ProjectSend 105

105

ProjectSend 110

110

ProjectSend 155

155

ProjectSend 156

156

ProjectSend 157

157

ProjectSend 161

161

ProjectSend 180

180

ProjectSend 335

335

ProjectSend 375

375

ProjectSend 405

405

ProjectSend 412

412

ProjectSend 514

514

ProjectSend 561

561

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