Ulearn a5a7ca20de859051ea0470542844980a66dfc05d - RCE

9.1

Critical

Discovered by 

Carlos Bello

Offensive Team, Fluid Attacks

Summary

Full name

Ulearn a5a7ca20de859051ea0470542844980a66dfc05d - RCE

Code name

State

Public

Release date

Apr 10, 2023

Affected product

Ulearn

Affected version(s)

a5a7ca20de859051ea0470542844980a66dfc05d

Vulnerability name

Insecure file upload

Vulnerability type

Remotely exploitable

Yes

CVSS v3.1 vector string

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 base score

9.1

Exploit available

No

CVE ID(s)

Description

Ulearn version a5a7ca20de859051ea0470542844980a66dfc05d allows an attacker with administrator permissions to obtain remote code execution on the server through the image upload functionality. This occurs because the application does not validate that the uploaded image is actually an image.

Vulnerability

This vulnerability This occurs because the application does not validate that the uploaded image is actually an image.

Evidence of exploitation

To exploit this vulnerability, we only need to send the following malicious PHP code to the server.

Our security policy

We have reserved the ID CVE-2023-0670 to refer to this issue from now on. Disclosure policy

System Information

  • Version: Ulearn a5a7ca20de859051ea0470542844980a66dfc05d

  • Operating System: GNU/Linux

Mitigation

There is currently no patch available for this vulnerability.

References

Timeline

Vulnerability discovered

Feb 3, 2023

Vendor contacted

Feb 3, 2023

Vendor replied

Feb 3, 2023

Public disclosure

Apr 10, 2023

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