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Jason Maloney Guestbook Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10336
Release Date: 2003-12-02
Popularity: 6,478 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Jason Maloney Guestbook 1.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Jason Maloney Guestbook, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands by including them directly in the "$mailprog" variable.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that the variable can't be manipulated.

Use another product.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Shaun Colley


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