Secunia Security Advisory - ThE TiGeR has reported a vulnerability in Berylium, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Berylium "beryliumroot" File Inclusion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25164
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25164/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information,
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Berylium
http://secunia.com/product/14157/
DESCRIPTION:
ThE TiGeR has reported a vulnerability in Berylium, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or to
compromise a vulnerable system.
Input passed to the "beryliumroot" parameter in
code/berylium-classes.php is not properly verified before being used
to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files
from local or external resources.
Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.
The vulnerability is reported in the version released on 2003-05-23.
Other versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
ThE TiGeR
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/3869
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