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Monkey Boards version 0.3.5 Multiple Path
 
Disclosure Vulnerabilities
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Fact: More than 15 vulnerabilities were discovered EVERY day of 2009

Description: 

Monkey Boards is a fully-featured message board system suitable for smaller web sites. Build a virtual online community where users can post and reply to anyone. It is coded in PHP and uses an SQLite database. Due to program flaws it is possible for the remote attacker to disclose the true path of the server-side script.

External References: 
Mitre CVE: CVE-2006-6113 
NVD NIST: CVE-2006-6113
OSVDB: 30683  30684 

Summary: 
Monkey Boards is a fully-featured message board system suitable for smaller web sites. Build a virtual online community where users can post and reply to anyone. It is coded in PHP and uses an SQLite database.
A security problem in the product allows attackers to gather the true path of the server-side script. 

Release Date:
November 27 2006

Severity:
Risk: Low
 
CVSS Metrics
Access Vector: Remote
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: not-required
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: None
Availability Impact: None
Impact Bias: Normal
CVSS Base Score: 2.3
 
Target Distribution on Internet: Low
 
Exploitability: Functional Exploit
Remediation Level: Official Fix
Report Confidence: Confirmed
 
Vulnerability Impact: Attack
Host Impact: Path disclosure. 

SecureScout Testcase ID:
TC 17939

Vulnerable Systems:
Monkeyboards 0.3.5 and earlier.

Vulnerability Type:
Program flaw - The admin_auth.inc.php and class.compiler.php scripts has flaws which lead to a Warning or even Fatal Errors.

Vendor Status: 
The Vendor has been notified. Project Administrator James Greenwood has released version 0.3.5a that fixes the problems. Please goto :http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=165094 to download latest version.

Solution:
Upgrade to version 0.3.5a or above to remedy this problem

Workaround: 
Disable warning messages: modify in the php.ini file following line display_errors = Off 
Or modify .htaccess file (this will work only for the apache servers). 

Example: 
HTTP REQUEST http://[TARGET]/[monkeyboards-directory]/include/engine/class.compiler.php

REPLY
...
<!--error--><br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: Class template_lite_compiler: Cannot inherit from undefined class template_lite in <b[FULL PATH TO FILE]class.compiler.php</b> on line <b>27</b><br /> <br /> 
...



or

HTTP REQUEST http://[TARGET]/[monkeyboards-directory]/include/admin_auth.inc.php

REPLY
...
<!--error--><br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function: logged_in() in <b>[FULL PATH TO FILE]admin_auth.inc.php</b> on line <b>3</b><br /> 
...



Credits: 
Jesper Jurcenoks
Co-founder netVigilance, Inc
www.netvigilance.com

 



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