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Minis minis.php month Parameter Traversal Arbitrary File Access

medium Nessus Plugin ID 16179

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Synopsis

A web application on the remote host has a directory traversal vulnerability.

Description

The remote host is running Minis, a weblogging system written in PHP.

The remote version of this software is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. Input to the 'month' parameter of the 'minis.php' script is not properly sanitized. A remote attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary files from the system.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest version of this software.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Jan/193

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 16179

File Name: minis_file_reading.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 1/17/2005

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0293

BID: 12279

Secunia: 13866