Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-19274

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
HIGH
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
phpbb
debian
nessus

Summary

Passing an absolute path to a file_exists check in phpBB before 3.2.4 allows Remote Code Execution through Object Injection by employing Phar deserialization when an attacker has access to the Admin Control Panel with founder permissions.

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-1593.NASL
descriptionSimon Scannell and Robin Peraglie of RIPS Technologies discovered that passing an absolute path to a file_exists check in phpBB, a full featured web forum, allows remote code execution through Object Injection by employing Phar deserialization when an attacker has access to the Admin Control Panel with founder permissions. The fix for this issue resulted in the removal of setting the ImageMagick path. The GD image library can be used as a replacement and a new event to generate thumbnails was added, so it is possible to write an extension that uses a different image library to generate thumbnails. For Debian 8
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id119121
published2018-11-26
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119121
titleDebian DLA-1593-1 : phpbb3 security update
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1593-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(119121);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/12/21 10:07:15");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-19274");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1593-1 : phpbb3 security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Simon Scannell and Robin Peraglie of RIPS Technologies discovered that
passing an absolute path to a file_exists check in phpBB, a full
featured web forum, allows remote code execution through Object
Injection by employing Phar deserialization when an attacker has
access to the Admin Control Panel with founder permissions.

The fix for this issue resulted in the removal of setting the
ImageMagick path. The GD image library can be used as a replacement
and a new event to generate thumbnails was added, so it is possible to
write an extension that uses a different image library to generate
thumbnails.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version
3.0.12-5+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb3 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00029.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/phpbb3"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Upgrade the affected phpbb3, and phpbb3-l10n packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpbb3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpbb3-l10n");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/11/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/11/26");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"phpbb3", reference:"3.0.12-5+deb8u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"phpbb3-l10n", reference:"3.0.12-5+deb8u2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");