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phppgadmin -- directory traversal with register_globals enabled

Affected packages
phppgadmin < 4.2.2

Details

VuXML ID 4ce3c20b-124b-11de-a964-0030843d3802
Discovery 2008-12-08
Entry 2009-03-16

Secunia reports:

Dun has discovered a vulnerability in phpPgAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed via the "_language" parameter to libraries/lib.inc.php is not properly sanitised before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources via directory traversal attacks and URL-encoded NULL bytes.

References

Bugtraq ID 32670
CVE Name CVE-2008-5587
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/33014