Description
includes/editor/insert_image.php in Pivot 1.30 RC2 and earlier creates the authentication credentials from parameters, which allows remote attackers to obtain privileges and upload arbitrary files via modified (1) pass and (2) session parameters, and (3) pass and (4) userlevel indices of the (a) Pivot_Vars[] or (b) Users[] array parameters.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Pivot 1.30 RC2 - Privilege Escalation / Remote Code Execution EDB-1991 · webapps · Jul 7, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20060707 Pivot <=1.30rc2 privilege escalation / remote commands execution mailing-list
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/pivot_130RC2_xpl.html
- ADV-2006-2744 vdb-entry
- pivot-insertimage-file-upload(27671) vdb-entry
- 20962 third-party-advisory
- 18881 vdb-entry
- 1214 third-party-advisory
- 27126 vdb-entry