OpenNews "username" Parameter Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in OpenNews, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "admin.php" script when processing the "username" parameter, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks and gain unauthorized access to a vulnerable application where they can inject arbitrary PHP code into the "config.php" script and execute malicious commands with the privileges of the web server.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
OpenNews version 1.0 and prior
     
Solution  
     
CVE   CVE-2009-2736
CVE-2009-2735
     
References   http://milw0rm.com/exploits/9371
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
Misc : Directory traversal - parameter starting with ../
3.2.0
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
PHP : Remote file inclusion prevention : suspicious root_path parameter found in URL
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
Directory traversal using ..\..
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
Directory traversal
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
PHP : Remote file inclusion prevention : URL found as parameter
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
Misc : Remote code execution prevention: 2 '|' characters found as a parameter of a script file
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 - GET : block comment delimiters in URL
3.2.0
Directory traversal backward root folder
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
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
High 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2009-08-06 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote