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Category:   Application (Forum/Board/Portal)  >   Invision Power Board Vendors:   Invision Power Services
Invision Power Board Lack of Validation of HTTP Client IP Value Lets Remote Users Inject SQL Commands
SecurityTracker Alert ID:  1016508
SecurityTracker URL:  http://securitytracker.com/id/1016508
CVE Reference:   GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH   (Links to External Site)
Date:  Jul 17 2006
Impact:   Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information, User access via network
Fix Available:  Yes  Vendor Confirmed:  Yes  Exploit Included:  Yes  
Version(s): 2.1 - 2.1.6
Description:   A vulnerability was reported in Invision Power Board. A remote user can inject SQL commands.

The software does not properly validate user-supplied input in the HTTP Client IP value. A remote user can supply a specially crafted value to execute SQL commands on the underlying database.

A demonstration exploit is available at:

http://rst.void.ru/download/r57ipb216gui.txt

1dt.w0lf of RST/GHC reported this vulnerability.

Impact:   A remote user can execute SQL commands on the underlying database.
Solution:   No solution was available at the time of this entry.
Vendor URL:  www.invisionboard.com/ (Links to External Site)
Cause:   Input validation error
Underlying OS:   Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)

Message History:   None.


 Source Message Contents

Date:  14 Jul 2006 12:38:11 -0000
Subject:  Invision Power Board 2.1 <= 2.1.6 sql injection

RST/GHC advisory#41
Product: Invision Power Board 
Version: 2.1 <= 2.1.6
Vendor: INVISION Power Service
URL: http://www.invisionpower.com
VULNERABILITY CLASS: SQL injection


[Product Description]
Invision Power Board, an award-winning scaleable bulletin board system, written in PHP, uses SQL database. 
"Invision Power Board is packed with useful features that enable you to quickly and painlessly configure and manage every aspect of
 your board." 

[Summary]
Unsufficient sanitazing of the user depend data in HTTP header may lead to SQL injection attack.

[Details]
Data from HTTP variable CLIENT_IP puts directly to sql statement:

[code] /sources/ipsclass.php
$addrs[] = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
$addrs[] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$addrs[] = $_SERVER['HTTP_PROXY_USER'];
foreach ( $addrs as $ip )
 {
  if ( $ip )
  {
  $this->ip_address = $ip;
  break;
  }
 }
[/code]

[code] /sources/classes/class_session.php
if ( $this->ipsclass->vars['match_ipaddress'] == 1 )
 {
 $query .= " AND ip_address='".$this->ipsclass->ip_address."'";
 }

$this->ipsclass->DB->simple_construct(array( 'select' => 'id, member_id, running_time, location',
							   'from'   => 'sessions',
							   'where'  => "id='".$session_id."'".$query));				
[/code]

[Exploit]
http://rst.void.ru/download/r57ipb216gui.txt

[Bugfix]
Upgrade to 2.1.7 version

[Credits]
1dt.w0lf
RST/GHC
http://rst.void.ru
http://ghc.ru

 
 


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