PT-2004-2696 · Hotnews · Hotnews

Published 2004-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-1796

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HotNews versions 0.7.2 and earlier

Description A remote file inclusion issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code. This can be achieved via the config[header] parameter to "hotnews-engine.inc.php3" or the config[incdir] parameter to "hnmain.inc.php3".

Recommendations For HotNews versions 0.7.2 and earlier, consider restricting access to the hotnews-engine.inc.php3 and hnmain.inc.php3 files until a patch is available. Avoid using the config[header] and config[incdir] parameters in the affected API endpoints until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-1796

Affected Products

Hotnews

References · 12

• 🔥 http://securitytracker.com/id?1008608 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/348840 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/9357 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/12160 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/23518 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/23517 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/10551 · Patch
• http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=342594 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1796 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/3332 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14140 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/3405 · Note