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Portcullis Security Advisory 07_011 Vulnerable System: Magnolia Content Managament System. Vulnerability Title: Magnolia Content Management System Unauthorised File Upload. Vulnerability discovery and development: Portcullis Security Testing Services Credit for Discovery: Nico Leidecker of Portcullis Computer Security Ltd and further research was then carried out. Affected systems: Magnolia 3.0.2 was tested to be vulnerable. Details: The Magnolia Content Management System allows the upload of files to the /dms/ directory and create arbitrary subdirectories without being authenticated. This is done via the /.magnolia/dms/uploadzip.html page, where a user can upload zip-archives, that will be extracted into a path, that can be specified by the GET parameter "path". Impact: An attacker may upload arbitray files and create subdirectories in the /dms/ directory. However, downloading those files requires authentication. Although, users could consider those files as trustworthy and download or execute them on their local machine. Exploit: Proof of concept exploit code is not required. Vendor Status: Vendor contacted by e-mail on the following dates: 16th April 18th April 26th June 16th July Comments Provided By The Vendor: A bug fix is available and will be released in the 3.0.3 release. Users of other 3.0 versions can change the priority value of the security value to a value of 150. This issue does not appear in version 3.1 due to the improved security architecture. The bug reports for this are available below the following: http://jira.magnolia.info/browse/MGNLDMS-101 http://jira.magnolia.info/browse/MAGNOLIA-1640 Copyright: Copyright © Portcullis Computer Security Limited 2007, All rights reserved worldwide. Permission is hereby granted for the electronic redistribution of this information. It is not to be edited or altered in any way without the express written consent of Portcullis Computer Security Limited. Disclaimer: The information herein contained may change without notice. Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. In no event shall the author/distributor (Portcullis Computer Security Limited) be held liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the use or spread of this information.