[Positive Technologies SA:2009-13] TinX CMS 3.x SQL Injection Vulnerability

[aanisimov () ptsecurity com]

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         (PT-2009-13) Positive Technologies Security Advisory

               TinX CMS SQL Injection vulnerability

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---[ Affected Software ]

        TinX CMS
               Versions 3.x prior to 3.5.1

        Product Link:
               http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133415


---[ Severity Rating ]

        Severity:       High
        Impact:         SQL Injection
        Attack Vector:  Remote

        CVSS v2:
               Base Score:     7.5
               Temporal Score: 5.9
               Vector:         (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)

        CVE:   CVE-2009-0825


---[ Software Description ]
 
TinX CMS is a content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and 
managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and 
their associated images).


---[ Vulnerability Description ]

Positive Technologies Research Team has discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in TinX CMS.

User input passed to the "id" parameter is not properly sanitized. This can allows remote attackers to execute 
arbitrary SQL commands via the "id" parameter.

Example:
http://[server]/system/rss.php?id=1'SQL-code

SQL injection is an attack technique that can be used to extract, modify, add or delete information from database 
servers that are used by vulnerable web applications. SQL injection vulnerabilities are caused by an unsecured 
programming technique that allows client-supplied data to interfere with the syntax of SQL queries. SQL is a 
programming language that is used by applications to communicate with database systems.


---[ Solution ]
 
Update to version 3.5.1.


---[ Disclosure Timeline ]
 
04/03/2009 - Vendor is notified
04/03/2009 - Vendor response
04/03/2009 - Requested status update from vendor
05/03/2009 - Vendor releases fixed version and details
06/03/2009 - Public disclosure


---[ Credits ]

This vulnerability was discovered by Dmitriy Evteev (Positive Technologies Research Team) using professional network 
security scanner MaxPatrol.


---[ References ]

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-13
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies Research Team:
 
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp


---[ About Positive Technologies ]

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