OpenX 2.6.4 multiple vulnerabilities

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   OpenX multiple vulnerabilities
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An advisory by EnableSecurity in collaboration with Acunetix. 

Advisory URL: 
http://resources.enablesecurity.com/advisories/openx-2.6.4-multiple.txt

Version: OpenX 2.6.4 and older versions

Description:

OpenX is an online advertising web application written in PHP that supports popular sites such as TechCrunch, SUN 
Microsystems and Metacafe. 

> From their website (openx.org):
"OpenX is a free, open source ad server that manages the selling and delivery of your online advertising inventory. You 
can get OpenX as a hosted service or as downloaded software."

Credits:

These vulnerabilities were discovered during testing of AcuSensor Technology feature in Acunetix WVS.
We worked with the OpenX security team to have these security flaws reported and fixed. 
We would like to publicly thank the OpenX team for their prompt response!

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Technical details:

The following vulnerabilities were identified:

Major issues:
  - SQL injection
  - Cross Site Scripting

Other issues:
  - Arbitrary File Deletion
  - CRLF injection



----------- Major issues -----------

::::: SQL vulnerabilities :::::

[[ Trigger: /adview.php ]] 

Description: 
The cookie "OAID" is not filtered when adview.php is accessed and used directly to construct the SQL INSERT statement. 

[[ Trigger: /www/delivery/tjs.php ]]

Description: 
1. The cookie "OAID" is not filtered when adview.php is accessed and used directly to construct the SQL INSERT 
statement. 
2. The "referer" parameter in the GET request is also used in the SQL statement and is another vector.



::::: XSS Vulnerabilities :::::

[[ Trigger: /www/admin/sso-accounts.php ]] 

Description:
The "email" parameter in the POST data is simply printed out in the html page, allowing injection of HTML i.e. XSS 
attacks. 

----------- Possible issues ----------- 


::::: Arbitary file deletion :::::

[[ Trigger: /www/delivery/tjs.php ]]

Reason:
May not be easily exploitable but it does allow directories to be traversed when deleting cache files. 

Exploitation: 
It does not seem to be exploitable on Linux, but might be exploitable on Windows. On Linux the following path would not 
open: /etc/../asdf/../passwd because "asdf" does not exist. However the following works on Windows: 
C:\asdf\..\boot.ini, even if "asdf" does not exist.


::::: CRLF Injection :::::

Reason: 
It seems that the current version of PHP does not allow headers with multiple lines, i.e ones that contain the carraige 
and return line feed characters. Therefore OpenX does not appear to be exploitable. However, the code does allow CRLF 
injection and this may be exposed in some other way *(eg. old versions of PHP ?). 

[[ Trigger: /adframe.php ]]

[[ Trigger: /adjs.php ]]

[[ Trigger: /www/delivery/tjs.php ]]


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Demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiNeiMS2Iu0

Exploit code:
Available to organizations by contacting info () enablesecurity com

Timeline:

Feb 03, 2009: An email was sent to the security team at OpenX and PGP keys exchanged
Feb 03, 2009: Sent report to OpenX team with full details
Feb 04, 2009: A patch was provided to us and we verified that the patch fixes the reported issues
Apr 01, 2009: Co-ordinated information release

Solution:

Upgrade to the latest version of OpenX:
http://www.openx.org/ad-server/download

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About Acunetix:
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is a tool designed to discover security holes in web applications that attackers 
could abuse to gain access to a business' systems and data. With Acunetix WVS websites can be regularly checked for 
vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and Cross Site Scripting. The scanner ships with many innovative features such 
as: AcuSensor Technology, automatic JavaScript analyzer, Visual macro recorders and extensive reporting facilities, 
which include various compliance reports.

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