VUPEN Security - My PHP Indexer "d" and "f" Parameters File Download Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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>> My PHP Indexer "d" and "f" Parameters File Download Vulnerability

Title : My PHP Indexer "d" and "f" Parameters File Download Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2796
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
CWE ID : CWE-22
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-10-13

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A vulnerability has been identified in My PHP Indexer, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "index.php" script that does not validate the "d" and "f" parameters before being passed as an argument to a "fread()" call, which could be exploited to download arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by JosS.

ChangeLog

2008-10-13 : Initial release

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