Network Security Wizards Dragon-Fire IDS 1.0 - Command Execution



EKU-ID: 25043 CVE: CVE-1999-0913;OSVDB-47 OSVDB-ID:
Author: Stefan Lauda Published: 1999-08-05 Verified: Verified
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The Dragon-Fire IDS remote web interface under version 1.0 has an insecure CGI script which allows for users to remotely execute commands as the user nobody. This could lead to a remote compromise of the system running Dragon-Fire.

Via the web interface for Dragon-Fire inside the IPONE field type your desired command prefaced with a | an example could be:

|echo 'uname -a'

The output of the command will then be displayed in the right hand window of the IDS WWW interface.