HTTP: PHP/FI mylog/mlog Exploitation

This signature detects attempts to exploit the vulnerable mlog.phtml script. Attackers can remotely access arbitrary files on the Web server.

Extended Description

The PHP/FI package which was originally written by Rasmus Lerdorf is an is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. Since its inception, PHP/FI has been turned over to another development team and is now known only as PHP. Certain versions of PHP/FI shipped with two flawed example script for logging examples. These scripts were mylog.html & mlog.html. in both mlog.html and mylog.html. The idea is to include a file for each type of logging stats, however, there is no escaping of slashes, so one can specify any file on the system. The problem lies in the line: By exploiting this problem users can view any file on the system which the http daemon user id has access to.

Affected Products

Php php/fi

References

BugTraq: 713

CVE: CVE-1999-0346

Short Name

HTTP:PHP:MLOG-SCREEN

Severity

Minor

Recommended

False

Recommended Action

None

HTTP: PHP/FI mylog/mlog Exploitation

Extended Description

Affected Products

References

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