Check Point Advisories

TWiki rev Parameter Shell Command Injection (CVE-2005-2877)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2005-299
Date Published:	5 Oct 2009
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Tuesday 03 November, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2005-2877
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	TWiki is a flexible enterprise collaboration platform developed in Perl. The software is a set of CGI programs that are loaded and executed by an HTTP server. TWiki is a structured, community developed documentation framework. It typically runs as a document management system, or a knowledge base. The web content of a TWiki installation is created collaboratively by a group of users. The user and maintenance interface of TWiki is provided via the HTTP protocol. A vulnerability exists in the TWiki product. The flaw is caused by insufficient sanitization of user supplied parameters in HTTP requests. A successful exploit attempt of this vulnerability allows a malicious user to execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the TWiki process. A successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands in the security context of the web server. The behaviour of the system depends on the nature of the injected shell commands.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the TWiki rev Parameter Shell Command Injection protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Web Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: TWiki rev parameter shell command injection