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HAMweather daysonly Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Executes arbitrary command via HAMweather

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote web server contains an application that permits execution of
arbitrary code.

Description :

The remote host is running HAMweather, a weather-forecasting software
application.

The installed version of HAMweather fails to properly sanitize input
to the 'daysonly' parameter before using it to evaluate PHP or Perl
code. An unauthenticated attacker can leverage this issue to execute
arbitrary code on the remote host subject to the rights of the web
server user id.

See also :

http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00115-09302006
http://support.hamweather.com/viewtopic.php?t=6548

Solution :

Upgrade to HAMweather 3.9.8.2 Perl/ASP or HAMweather 3.9.8.5 PHP or
later.

Network Security Threat Level:

High / CVSS Base Score : 7
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/A:P/I:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 20311

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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