A vulnerability has been identified in Mambo, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an error in the "register_globals" emulation layer in "globals.php" that does not perform safety checks on certain values, which may be exploited by remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary variables, include malicious files via the "mosConfig_absolute_path" parameter, and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server [...]
References
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2473
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/931
Credits
Vulnerability reported by peter MC tachatte
ChangeLog
2005-11-17 : Initial release
2005-11-21 : Updated Solution
2005-11-22 : Exploit published
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