Coppermine Photo Gallery admin.php command execution

coppermine-admin-command-execution (32236) The risk level is classified as HighHigh Risk

Description:

Coppermine Photo Gallery could allow a remote attacker with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the admin.php script. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands on the system using a semi-colon character (;) in the "Command line options for ImageMagick" form field.

Platforms Affected:

  • Grégory Demar, Coppermine Photo Gallery 1.4.10 and prior

Remedy:

No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.

Consequences:

Gain Access

References:

  • SourceForge.net, Coppermine Photo Gallery at http://sourceforge.net/projects/coppermine/.
  • BID-22406: Coppermine Photo Gallery Admin.PHP Shell Command Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2007-0835: admin.php in Coppermine Photo Gallery 1.4.10, and possibly earlier, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary shell commands via shell metacharacters (; semicolon) in the Command line options for ImageMagick form field, when used as an option to ImageMagick's convert command. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
  • SA24019: Coppermine Photo Gallery File Inclusion and Command Execution

Reported:

Feb 05, 2007

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