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Album.pl Vulnerability - Remote Command Execution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (aresu@bosen.net)
Sat Apr 26 15:17:59 2003
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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:50:29 +0700
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AresU Advisory
04/27/2003
Album.pl Vulnerability
Severity : High (CGI Remote Command Execution)
Systems Affected: Album.pl up to v6.1
Vendor URL: http://perl.bobbitt.ca/album
Vuln Type : CGI Remote Command Execution
Status : Vendor contacted, new fixed version available
Author : AresU
Greetz to : Mike B., Bosen, Tioeuy, syzwz, Heltz, eF73, SakitJiwa, nimdA, Br0374l, FreshFirst, Algorithm
All 1ndonesian Security Team (1st)
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Summary
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album.pl is a popular web photo album application that allows you to simply drop new photo files into a directory, and they will automatically be accessible via the web.
Any user can execute commands with Web Server privileges (normally nobody) when use an alternate configuration file.
Solution
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Upgrade to a newer album.pl version (at least 6.2)
http://perl.bobbitt.ca/album/album62.zip
Acknowledgments
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Vulnerability discovery and advisory by AresU
Vendor Response
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Vendor has been contacted and new fixed version is available.
Exploit Code
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I have refrained from publishing a more functional exploit at this time,
to delay attacks against album.pl installations.
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