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SurgeLDAP Arbitrary File Retrieval Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA11343
Release Date: 2004-04-12
Popularity: 6,163 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:SurgeLDAP 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Dr_insane has reported a vulnerability in SurgeLDAP, allowing malicious people to retrieve files from a vulnerable system.

The problem is that a malicious person can send a specially crafted request which can retrieve files from known locations. This can be exploited to retrieve any file which the SurgeLDAP process got read access to.

Example:
http://[host]:6680/user.cgi?cmd=show&page=/../../../some.file

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