GForge "create()" Comment Handling Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in GForge, which could be exploited by attackers to manipulate and inject SQL queries. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "create()" [common/include/GroupJoinRequest.class] function when processing the "comments" parameter, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
GForge version 4.5 and prior
     
Solution   Apply patch : http://gforge.org/scm/viewvc.php/?view=rev&root=gforge&revision=6709
     
CVE   CVE-2008-2381
     
References   http://gforge.org/scm/viewvc.php/?view=rev&root=gforge&revision=6709
http://lists.gforge.org/pipermail/gforge-commits/2008-December/001128.html
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header
4.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2009-01-05 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote