CVE-2013-6225

published 2020-01-13

CVE-2013-6225: LiveZilla 5.0.1.4 has a Remote Code Execution vulnerability

Priority P2 73 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

LiveZilla 5.0.1.4 has a Remote Code Execution vulnerability

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
livezilla	livezilla	—	—

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

command GET /index.php?test= HTTP/1.1↗

• → Detect null byte (%00) characters in the 'g_language' GET parameter, which can be used to truncate file extensions and enable LFI-to-RCE via log file poisoning ↗
• → On Windows targets, watch for traversal attempts in 'g_language' aimed at Apache error.log or access.log paths, indicating log poisoning for RCE ↗

• · LFI-to-RCE via null byte injection only works on older PHP versions that permit null bytes in URLs; modern PHP versions block this, limiting the impact to LFI only on patched PHP runtimes ↗
• · The exploit requires prior knowledge of the Apache error.log or access.log absolute path on the target system before it can be leveraged for RCE ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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