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Secunia Security Advisory 50022

Secunia Security Advisory 50022
Posted Jul 31, 2012
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ushahidi, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion and SQL injection attacks and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, and conduct SQL injection attacks.

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Secunia Security Advisory 50022

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TITLE:
Ushahidi Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50022

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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http://secunia.com/advisories/50022/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=50022

RELEASE DATE:
2012-07-31

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
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DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ushahidi, which can be
exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion and SQL
injection attacks and by malicious people to disclose potentially
sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, and
conduct SQL injection attacks.

1) Input passed via multiple parameters to multiple scrips is not
properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be
exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

List of affected scripts and parameters:
http://[host]/application/controllers/alerts.php?alert_code&code
http://[host]/application/controllers/admin/messages.php?rid
http://[host]/application/models/settings.php
http://[host]/application/controllers/json.php?m
http://[host]/application/libraries/api/MY_Countries_Api_Object.php
http://[host]/application/libraries/api/MY_Checkin_Api_Object.php
http://[host]/application/controllers/admin/messages/reporters.php?s&k
http://[host]/application/models/location.php?id
http://[host]/application/controllers/admin/reports.php?incident_id
http://[host]/application/controllers/members/reports.php?incident_id

2) Missing authentication checks in
application/libraries/api/MY_Email_Api_Object.php and
application/libraries/api/MY_Comments_Api_Object.php when handling
comments, reports, and email API calls can be exploited to access
otherwise restricted functionality.

3) An error in application/libraries/api/MY_Comments_Api_Object.php
when handling comments can be exploited to disclose potentially
sensitive user details.

4) Input passed via the "page title" tag is not properly sanitised in
application/views/admin/layout.php and themes/default/views/header.php
before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and
script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in
context of an affected site if malicious data is viewed.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 2.4 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository. A version 2.5 is planned to be released
to address the vulnerabilities.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
3) Reported by the vendor.

The vendor credits:
1) Timothy D. Morgan, Kees Cook, and postmodern
2) Kees Cook and Dennison Williams
4) Amy K. Farrell

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Ushahidi:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/144
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/fdb48d1
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/6f6a919
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/4764792
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/d954093
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/3301e48
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/68d9916
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/e0e2b66
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/a11d43c
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/3f14fa0
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/4c24325
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/f67f4ad
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/529f353
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/00eae4f

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

DEEP LINKS:
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EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
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EXPLOIT:
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