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Archived document Original netVigilance advisory, published March 16 2007. Preserved as published — the advisory text and version numbers are unchanged; it is shown here converted from the original HTML page.

advisory0015 · CVE-2007-0607 · published 2007-03-16

w-agora version 4.2.1 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

archived risk: low

Current status

This advisory describes a vulnerability from 2007. It is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and there is no active remediation deadline. The page is kept online because other security databases link to it.

CVE reference CVE-2007-0607
In KEV catalog no
Affected software w-agora version 4.2.1
Captured from netvigilance.com

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Reproduced as it was published, including the advisory numbering, scoring and the disclosure timeline used at the time.

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Description:

w-agora is a set of scripts written in PHP. This package is intended to allow users to share, exchange and publish information, files and discussions over the web.

It is possible to disclose the contents of the globals.inc file and see the true server paths to the main scripts.

External References:
Mitre CVE: CVE-2007-0607
NVD NIST: CVE-2007-0607
OSVDB: 31670

Summary:
w-agora is a set of scripts written in PHP intended to allow users to share, exchange and publish information, files and discussions over the web.

A security issue in the product allows attackers to disclose the contents of the globals.inc file and see the true server paths to the main scripts.

This vulnerabilities can be exploited only when PHP register_globals is On.

Release Date:
March 16 2007

Severity:
Risk: Low

CVSS Metrics
Access Vector: Remote
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: not-required
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: None
Availability Impact: None
Impact Bias: Normal
CVSS Base Score: 1.86

Target Distribution on Internet: Low

Exploitability: Functional Exploit
Remediation Level: Workaround
Report Confidence: Uncorroborated

Vulnerability Impact: Attack
Host Impact: Information disclosure.

SecureScout Testcase ID:
TC 17942

Vulnerable Systems:
w-agora version 4.2.1

Vulnerability Type:
Security settings problem: Read access to file globals.inc.

Vendor Status:
Author Marc Druilhe. The Vendor has been notified on January 30th 2007, and has not responded.

Solution:
None.

Workaround:
Set PHP register_globals to Off.

Or modify .htaccess file (this will work only for the apache servers).

Example:

globals.inc File Content Disclosure Vulnerability :

REQUEST http://[TARGET]/[w-agora-directory]/globals.inc

REPLY
...
Content of the file globals.inc ...

Credits:
Jesper Jurcenoks
Co-founder netVigilance, Inc
www.netvigilance.com
Original URL: /advisory0015.html · preserved at the same address

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