Overview
AdCycle does not adequately filter user input, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary MySQL queries.
Description
AdCycle is a shareware banner ad management system written in Perl and designed to work with a MySQL database. AdCycle does not adequately filter multiple unspecified CGI variables before passing them to MySQL queries. As a result, attackers may execute arbitrary queries on the MySQL database. |
Impact
Remote attackers may read or modify data stored in AdCycle's MySQL database and other databases to which the AdCycle CGI process has access. |
Solution
The CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem. |
Vendor Information
282403
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
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| Temporal | ||
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References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to GOBBLES Security Advisory for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2001-1226 |
| Severity Metric: | 4.28 |
| Date Public: | 2001-12-25 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-09-24 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2002-09-24 15:55 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 7 |