Bug 237843 (CVE-2008-3195)

Summary:	www-apps/twiki <4.2.3 config script command execution (CVE-2008-{3195,4112})
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) <rbu>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/362012
Whiteboard:	~1 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-16 14:40:28 UTC

US-CERT writes:
The TWiki wiki software fails to validate input passed to certain URLs. By accessing a URL containing the TWiki configuration script, an attacker may be able to read arbitrary files.

I. Description
TWiki is a wiki that is runs in the context of the Apache web server. TWiki is installed by configuring Apache, then accessing a configuration script from a web browser. Before executing the configuration script, the TWiki installation instructions provide a generator for Apache configuration directives that is designed to prevent unauthorized access to the script.

There is a command execution vulnerability in TWiki versions prior to 4.2.3. According to the TWiki download page, this issue can only be exploited if the configure script was not secured as described in step number 8 in the installation guide.

Public exploit code has been released that targets this vulnerability. TWiki servers typically use predictable URLs and vulnerable systems may be found by querying search engines.

Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-17 19:39:31 UTC

CVE-2008-4112 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4112):
  Directory traversal vulnerability in bin/configure in TWiki before
  4.2.3, when a certain step in the installation guide is skipped,
  allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a query string
  containing a .. (dot dot) in the image variable.

Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-19 15:28:13 UTC

CVE-2008-3195 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-3195):
  Directory traversal vulnerability in bin/configure in TWiki before
  4.2.3, when a certain step in the installation guide is skipped,
  allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a query string
  containing a .. (dot dot) in the image variable, and execute
  arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Comment 3 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-21 14:25:55 UTC

Added twiki-4.2.3, removed vulnerable -4.1.2, -4.2.0, -4.2.2. Unstable on all arches. Webapps done.