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Powerslave SQL Statement Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9817
Release Date: 2003-09-24
Popularity: 4,328 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Powerslave 4.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Powerslave Portalmanager, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose information about the SQL statements used.

The vulnerability is caused due to missing input validation. Reportedly, this can be exploited by appending arbitrary SQL commands after the sql-id field in the URL, which returns error messages disclosing various information about the database structure and statements (see the original advisory for an example).

The vulnerability has been reported in version 4.3.

Solution:
Update to version 4.4.3pl3.

Provided and/or discovered by:
H Zero Seven

Original Advisory:
ftp://ftp.h07.org/pub/h07.org/projects/papers/h07adv-powerslave.txt


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