CVE-2012-1790

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Published 2012-03-19 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Webgrind 1.0 and 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the file parameter to index.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18523 webapps php verified text · 2 KB

LiquidWorm · 2012-02-25

webgrind 1.0 - 'file' Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

webgrind 1.0 (file param) Local File Inclusion Vulnerability


Vendor: Joakim Nygard and Jacob Oettinger
Product web page: http://code.google.com/p/webgrind
Affected version: 1.0 (v1.02 in trunk on github)

Summary: Webgrind is an Xdebug profiling web frontend in PHP5.

Desc: webgrind suffers from a file inlcusion vulnerability (LFI)
when input passed thru the 'file' parameter to index.php is not
properly verified before being used to include files. This can be
exploited to include files from local resources with directory
traversal attacks and URL encoded NULL bytes.

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/index.php:
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122: case 'fileviewer':
123:     $file = get('file');
124:     $line = get('line');

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Tested on: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (EN)
           Apache 2.2.21
           PHP 5.3.9
           MySQL 5.5.20


Vulnerability discovered by Michael Meyer
                            michael.meyer greenbone net


Vendor status:

[22.02.2012] Vulnerability discovered.
[22.02.2012] Vendor notified.
[24.02.2012] No response from the vendor.
[25.02.2012] Public security advisory released.


Advisory ID: ZSL-2012-5075
Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2012-5075.php

Vendor: http://code.google.com/p/webgrind/issues/detail?id=66


22.02.2012

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 http://<host>/webgrind/index.php?file=/etc/passwd&op=fileviewer
 http://<host>/webgrind/index.php?file=/boot.ini&op=fileviewer

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
webgrind_project	webgrind	`1.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.