CVE-2014-10037

published 2015-01-13

CVE-2014-10037: Directory traversal vulnerability in DomPHP 0.83 and earlier allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a .. (dot dot) in the url parameter to…

Priority P3 55 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

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

EXPLOIT

Directory traversal vulnerability in DomPHP 0.83 and earlier allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a .. (dot dot) in the url parameter to photoalbum/index.php.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
domphp	domphp	<= 0.83	—

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

url /photoalbum/index.php?urlancien=&url=../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00↗

path /photoalbum/index.php↗

• → Look for HTTP GET requests targeting /photoalbum/index.php with a 'url' parameter containing directory traversal sequences (../) and a null byte (%00), which is the canonical exploit pattern for this CVE. ↗
• → A successful exploitation response will contain the /etc/passwd file content; match on the regex pattern 'root:.*:0:0:' in HTTP 200 responses to confirm exploitation. ↗
• → The exploit requires two query parameters: 'urlancien' (empty) and 'url' (containing the traversal payload). Alert on requests to photoalbum/index.php where the 'url' parameter contains '../' sequences. ↗

• · The null byte (%00) appended to the traversal payload is a PHP null byte injection technique used to truncate file extensions. This technique is only effective on PHP versions prior to 5.3.4 where null byte handling in file paths was fixed. ↗
• · Affected versions are DomPHP 0.83 and earlier. The vulnerability is in the 'url' parameter of the photoalbum module specifically. ↗

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