CVE-2008-6221

published 2009-02-20

CVE-2008-6221: PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in config.dadamail.php in the Dada Mail Manager (com_dadamail) component 2.6 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to…

Priority P2 59 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

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

EXPLOIT

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in config.dadamail.php in the Dada Mail Manager (com_dadamail) component 2.6 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the GLOBALS[mosConfig_absolute_path] parameter.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
dadamailproject	dada_mail_manager	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path administrator/components/com_dadamail/config.dadamail.php↗

url http://localhost/[path]/administrator/components/com_dadamail/config.dadamail.php?GLOBALS[mosConfig_absolute_path]=[evilcode]↗

• → Detect HTTP requests targeting config.dadamail.php with a user-supplied GLOBALS[mosConfig_absolute_path] parameter containing a URL (remote file inclusion attempt) ↗
• → Monitor GET/POST requests to the path administrator/components/com_dadamail/config.dadamail.php for the presence of GLOBALS[mosConfig_absolute_path] in query string parameters ↗

• · The vulnerable component is specifically version 2.6 of com_dadamail; other versions may not be affected ↗

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