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Nexgen FTP Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA11216
Release Date: 2004-03-25
Last Update: 2004-04-13
Popularity: 6,432 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Nexgen FTP Server
Nexgen Server SDK

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Ziv Kamir has reported a vulnerability in Nexgen FTP Server, allowing malicious people to gain knowledge of sensitive information.

The problem is that arguments passed to certain commands aren't properly verified. This can be exploited to access files outside the FTP root using the classical directory traversal character sequence "../".

The vulnerability affects Nexgen FTP Server and possible other FTP servers build using Nexgen Server SDK.

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