Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-5587 - Path Traversal vulnerability in PHPpgadmin
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/lib.inc.php in phpPgAdmin 4.2.1 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the _language parameter to index.php.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 9 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Relative Path Traversal An attacker exploits a weakness in input validation on the target by supplying a specially constructed path utilizing dot and slash characters for the purpose of obtaining access to arbitrary files or resources. An attacker modifies a known path on the target in order to reach material that is not available through intended channels. These attacks normally involve adding additional path separators (/ or \) and/or dots (.), or encodings thereof, in various combinations in order to reach parent directories or entirely separate trees of the target's directory structure.
- Directory Traversal An attacker with access to file system resources, either directly or via application logic, will use various file path specification or navigation mechanisms such as ".." in path strings and absolute paths to extend their range of access to inappropriate areas of the file system. The attacker attempts to either explore the file system for recon purposes or access directories and files that are intended to be restricted from their access. Exploring the file system can be achieved through constructing paths presented to directory listing programs, such as "ls" and 'dir', or through specially crafted programs that attempt to explore the file system. The attacker engaging in this type of activity is searching for information that can be used later in a more exploitive attack. Access to restricted directories or files can be achieved through modification of path references utilized by system applications.
- File System Function Injection, Content Based An attack of this type exploits the host's trust in executing remote content including binary files. The files are poisoned with a malicious payload (targeting the file systems accessible by the target software) by the attacker and may be passed through standard channels such as via email, and standard web content like PDF and multimedia files. The attacker exploits known vulnerabilities or handling routines in the target processes. Vulnerabilities of this type have been found in a wide variety of commercial applications from Microsoft Office to Adobe Acrobat and Apple Safari web browser. When the attacker knows the standard handling routines and can identify vulnerabilities and entry points they can be exploited by otherwise seemingly normal content. Once the attack is executed, the attackers' program can access relative directories such as C:\Program Files or other standard system directories to launch further attacks. In a worst case scenario, these programs are combined with other propagation logic and work as a virus.
- Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic This attack targets the encoding of the URL combined with the encoding of the slash characters. An attacker can take advantage of the multiple way of encoding an URL and abuse the interpretation of the URL. An URL may contain special character that need special syntax handling in order to be interpreted. Special characters are represented using a percentage character followed by two digits representing the octet code of the original character (%HEX-CODE). For instance US-ASCII space character would be represented with %20. This is often referred as escaped ending or percent-encoding. Since the server decodes the URL from the requests, it may restrict the access to some URL paths by validating and filtering out the URL requests it received. An attacker will try to craft an URL with a sequence of special characters which once interpreted by the server will be equivalent to a forbidden URL. It can be difficult to protect against this attack since the URL can contain other format of encoding such as UTF-8 encoding, Unicode-encoding, etc.
- Manipulating Input to File System Calls An attacker manipulates inputs to the target software which the target software passes to file system calls in the OS. The goal is to gain access to, and perhaps modify, areas of the file system that the target software did not intend to be accessible.
Exploit-Db
description | phpPgAdmin <= 4.2.1 (_language) Local File Inclusion Vulnerability. CVE-2008-5587. Webapps exploit for php platform |
file | exploits/php/webapps/7363.txt |
id | EDB-ID:7363 |
last seen | 2016-02-01 |
modified | 2008-12-06 |
platform | php |
port | |
published | 2008-12-06 |
reporter | dun |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/7363/ |
title | phpPgAdmin <= 4.2.1 _language Local File Inclusion Vulnerability |
type | webapps |
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2008-11602.NASL description This release fixes some bugs, and also fixes a security issue: * Fix bug where long SQL queries get truncated * Fix createFunction method on PostgreSQL < 7.3 * Fix bug with alter schema in PostgreSQL < 7.4 * Remove alter domain for PostgreSQL < 7.4 * Fix local file inclusion vulnerability: (CVE-2008-5587) http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32670/ Unset language variable before determine file includes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35239 published 2008-12-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35239 title Fedora 9 : phpPgAdmin-4.2.2-1.fc9 (2008-11602) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2008-11602. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(35239); script_version ("1.16"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:27"); script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5587"); script_bugtraq_id(32670); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2008-11602"); script_name(english:"Fedora 9 : phpPgAdmin-4.2.2-1.fc9 (2008-11602)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This release fixes some bugs, and also fixes a security issue: * Fix bug where long SQL queries get truncated * Fix createFunction method on PostgreSQL < 7.3 * Fix bug with alter schema in PostgreSQL < 7.4 * Remove alter domain for PostgreSQL < 7.4 * Fix local file inclusion vulnerability: (CVE-2008-5587) http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32670/ Unset language variable before determine file includes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); # http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32670/ script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32670/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476823" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2008-December/017935.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?0d8f3542" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected phpPgAdmin package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_cwe_id(22); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpPgAdmin"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/12/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/12/21"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^9([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 9.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC9", reference:"phpPgAdmin-4.2.2-1.fc9")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "phpPgAdmin"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_PHPPGADMIN-5984.NASL description Attackers could read arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in phpPgAdmin (CVE-2008-5587). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35682 published 2009-02-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35682 title openSUSE 10 Security Update : phpPgAdmin (phpPgAdmin-5984) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update phpPgAdmin-5984. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(35682); script_version ("1.8"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:37"); script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5587"); script_name(english:"openSUSE 10 Security Update : phpPgAdmin (phpPgAdmin-5984)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the phpPgAdmin-5984 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Attackers could read arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in phpPgAdmin (CVE-2008-5587)." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected phpPgAdmin package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_cwe_id(22); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:phpPgAdmin"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/02/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/02/13"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE10\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "10.3", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"phpPgAdmin-4.1.3-19.2") ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "phpPgAdmin"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_1_PHPPGADMIN-090205.NASL description Attackers could read arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in phpPgAdmin (CVE-2008-5587). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40297 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40297 title openSUSE Security Update : phpPgAdmin (phpPgAdmin-503) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update phpPgAdmin-503. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(40297); script_version("1.10"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:35"); script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5587"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : phpPgAdmin (phpPgAdmin-503)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the phpPgAdmin-503 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Attackers could read arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in phpPgAdmin (CVE-2008-5587)." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462762" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected phpPgAdmin package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_cwe_id(22); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:phpPgAdmin"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/02/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/07/21"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.1", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.1", reference:"phpPgAdmin-4.2-1.72.1") ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "phpPgAdmin"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_0_PHPPGADMIN-090205.NASL description Attackers could read arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in phpPgAdmin (CVE-2008-5587). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40109 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40109 title openSUSE Security Update : phpPgAdmin (phpPgAdmin-503) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2012-219.NASL description update to 5.0.4, fix for bnc#754694 (CVE-2012-1600) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-13 plugin id 74596 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/74596 title openSUSE Security Update : phpPgAdmin (openSUSE-SU-2012:0493-1) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-1693.NASL description Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpPgAdmin, a tool to administrate PostgreSQL database over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2007-2865 Cross-site scripting vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the server parameter. - CVE-2007-5728 Cross-site scripting vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via PHP_SELF. - CVE-2008-5587 Directory traversal vulnerability allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via _language parameter. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35276 published 2008-12-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35276 title Debian DSA-1693-2 : phppgadmin - several vulnerabilities NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2008-11576.NASL description This release fixes some bugs, and also fixes a security issue: * Fix bug where long SQL queries get truncated * Fix createFunction method on PostgreSQL < 7.3 * Fix bug with alter schema in PostgreSQL < 7.4 * Remove alter domain for PostgreSQL < 7.4 * Fix local file inclusion vulnerability: (CVE-2008-5587) http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32670/ Unset language variable before determine file includes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35234 published 2008-12-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35234 title Fedora 8 : phpPgAdmin-4.2.2-1.fc8 (2008-11576) NASL family CGI abuses NASL id PHPPGADMIN_LANGUAGE_FILE_INCLUDE.NASL description The remote host is running phpPgAdmin, a web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL. The installed version of phpPgAdmin fails to filter user-supplied input to the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35060 published 2008-12-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35060 title phpPgAdmin index.php _language Parameter Local File Inclusion NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2008-11564.NASL description This release fixes some bugs, and also fixes a security issue: * Fix bug where long SQL queries get truncated * Fix createFunction method on PostgreSQL < 7.3 * Fix bug with alter schema in PostgreSQL < 7.4 * Remove alter domain for PostgreSQL < 7.4 * Fix local file inclusion vulnerability: (CVE-2008-5587) http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32670/ Unset language variable before determine file includes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 36894 published 2009-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/36894 title Fedora 10 : phpPgAdmin-4.2.2-1.fc10 (2008-11564) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_4CE3C20B124B11DEA9640030843D3802.NASL description Secunia reports : Dun has discovered a vulnerability in phpPgAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. Input passed via the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35937 published 2009-03-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35937 title FreeBSD : phppgadmin -- directory traversal with register_globals enabled (4ce3c20b-124b-11de-a964-0030843d3802)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-04/msg00033.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-04/msg00033.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33014
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33014
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33263
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33263
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4737
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4737
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1693
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1693
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32670
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32670
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47140
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47140
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7363
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7363