Re: Insecure file upload in Berta CMS

[Simon Waters <simon.waters () surevine com>]

> On 28 Mar 2015, at 05:47, cve-assign () mitre org wrote:
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> > http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/155
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> > We found that the file upload didn't require authentication.
> ...
>
> Use CVE-2015-2780 for this "didn't require authentication" issue.


Thanks


> The ability to bypass image validation by using certain .php files
> that begin with a "GIF89" substring might be considered a bug, but is
> perhaps not a security bug.

Your analysis is similar to mine, and private correspondence with the developer.

I've added a comment to PHP docs for getimagesize to remind folks it doesn't validate images, I don't think this is a 
bug.

It might be a useful feature for PHP to have a simple file upload validation (Image magick has one), but there is no 
guarantee that valid files won't be misinterpreted as malicious if you can get them interpreted in an inappropriate 
context.

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