Phpbb.Tweaked.PHPBB.Root.Path.Remote.File.Inclusion

Release Date Jan 05, 2012
Severity medium
Impact System Compromise: Remote attackers can gain control of vulnerable systems.
Description This indicates a possible attack against a remote File Include vulnerability in Phpbb Tweaked. The vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to include and execute an arbitrary file on the web server with the privileges of the server via a specially-crafted URL request to the 'includes/functions.php' script, by using the 'phpbb_root_path' parameter to specify a malicious PHP file from a remote system.
Affected Products Phpbb Tweaked version 3 and prior.
Recommended Actions Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpbbtweaked/
Coverage IPS VCM
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) CVE-2007-0680 CVE-2007-0656
Reference/s http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22344 (BugTraq) http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22320 (BugTraq)

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