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phppgadmin -- "formLanguage" local file inclusion vulnerability

Affected packages
phppgadmin < 3.5.4

Details

VuXML ID 88188a8c-eff6-11d9-8310-0001020eed82
Discovery 2005-07-05
Entry 2005-07-08
Modified 2005-07-21

A Secunia Advisory reports:

A vulnerability has been reported in phpPgAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to the "formLanguage" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.

Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

References

Bugtraq ID 14142
CVE Name CVE-2005-2256
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/15941/
URL http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=342261