Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-0200 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Tiki Tikiwiki Cms/Groupware 1.6.1
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
TikiWiki before 1.8.5 does not properly validate files that have been uploaded to the temp directory, which could allow remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP scripts, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1386.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Nessus
NASL family CGI abuses NASL id TIKIWIKI_REMOTE_FLAWS.NASL description The remote host is running TikiWiki, a content management system written in PHP. The remote version of this software is vulnerable to a flaw in the way TikiWiki handles uploaded files. If an attacker is able to upload a file, they can then call the script remotely via a request to the $tikiroot/temp/ directory. This would allow for the execution of arbitrary PHP code on the web server. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 16229 published 2005-01-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/16229 title TikiWiki File Upload temp Directory Arbitrary Script Execution code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(16229); script_version("1.14"); script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0200"); script_bugtraq_id(12328); script_name(english:"TikiWiki File Upload temp Directory Arbitrary Script Execution"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "A web application on the remote host has an arbitrary code execution vulnerability." ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is running TikiWiki, a content management system written in PHP. The remote version of this software is vulnerable to a flaw in the way TikiWiki handles uploaded files. If an attacker is able to upload a file, they can then call the script remotely via a request to the $tikiroot/temp/ directory. This would allow for the execution of arbitrary PHP code on the web server." ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade to the latest version of the product." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2005/01/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2005/01/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe",value:"cpe:/a:tikiwiki:tikiwiki"); script_end_attributes(); script_summary(english:"Checks the version of TikiWiki"); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"CGI abuses"); script_dependencie("http_version.nasl"); script_require_ports("Services/www", 80); script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning"); script_require_keys("www/PHP"); exit(0); } # # The script code starts here # include("http_func.inc"); include("http_keepalive.inc"); port = get_http_port(default:80, embedded:TRUE); if(!get_port_state(port))exit(0); if(!can_host_php(port:port))exit(0); function check(loc) { local_var r, req; req = http_get(item: loc + "/tiki-index.php", port:port); r = http_keepalive_send_recv(port:port, data:req, bodyonly:1); if( r == NULL )exit(0); if( egrep(pattern:"This is Tiki v(0\.|1\.[0-7]\.|1\.8\.[0-5][^0-9]|1\.9 RC(1|2|3|3\.1)([^.]|[^0-9]))", string:r) ) { security_hole(port); exit(0); } } foreach dir (cgi_dirs()) { check(loc:dir); }
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200501-41.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200501-41 (TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution) TikiWiki does not validate files uploaded to the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 16432 published 2005-02-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/16432 title GLSA-200501-41 : TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-41. # # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. # and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike # license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(16432); script_version("1.17"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:42"); script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0200"); script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"200501-41"); script_name(english:"GLSA-200501-41 : TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200501-41 (TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution) TikiWiki does not validate files uploaded to the 'temp' directory. Impact : A malicious user could run arbitrary commands on the server by uploading and calling a PHP script. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time." ); # http://tikiwiki.org/art102 script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://tiki.org/art102" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200501-41" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "All TikiWiki users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/tikiwiki-1.8.5'" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:tikiwiki"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/01/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/02/14"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("qpkg.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (qpkg_check(package:"www-apps/tikiwiki", unaffected:make_list("ge 1.8.5"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 1.8.5"))) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = qpkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "TikiWiki"); }