SYMSA-2007-014: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Beehive Forum Software

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Advisory ID: SYMSA-2007-014
Advisory Title: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Beehive Forum
Software
Author: Nick Bennett
Robert Brown / [email protected]
Release Date: 28-11-2007
Application: Beehive Forum 0.7.1 (earlier versions also
vulnerable)
Platform: All supported
Severity: Remotely exploitable / Information Disclosure
Vendor status: Updated Application Versions Available
CVE Number: CVE-2007-6014
Reference: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26492

Overview:

Beehive Forum is an open source web based forum application
written in PHP. A vulnerability exists in the Beehive Forum
software that could allow a remote user to execute SQL injection
attacks. These attacks could compromise sensitive data including
usernames and passwords for the Beehive application. Arbitrary
data from other applications hosted on the same server could also
be compromised, depending on the configuration of MySQL.

Details:

This vulnerability exists because of a failure in the application
to properly sanitize user input for the variable "t_dedupe". This
variable is accepted as input in the page "post.php". The value of
this variable is then included in an SQL statement which is
executed with the PHP function "@mysql_query". This function is
specifically designed to mitigate the effects of an SQL injection
attack by not allowing multiple SQL statements in one call.
However, it is still possible to manipluate the SQL statement
through the "t_dedupe" variable to obtain arbitrary data from
the database.

Vendor Response:

There is a security vulnerability in Beehive Forum that could
allow for user logon and password MD5 hash disclosure.

This vulnerability has been fixed in the latest release of the
product, Beehive Forum 0.8. It is recommend all users immediately
obtain the newest version of Beehive Forum to protect against
this threat.

Project Beehive Forum is available for download from the project
website at http://www.beehiveforum.net/

If there are any further questions about this statement, please
contact a member of the development team.

Recommendation:

It is recommend all users immediately obtain the newest version of
Beehive Forum to protect against this threat. Project Beehive
Forum is available for download from the project website at
http://www.beehiveforum.net/.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Information:

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
the following names to these issues. These are candidates for
inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes
names for security problems.

CVE-2007-6014

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