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Verity Ultraseek Reserved DOS Device Name Path Disclosure
Secunia Advisory: SA11556
Release Date: 2004-05-06
Last Update: 2005-02-23
Popularity: 5,679 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Verity Ultraseek 5.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-0050


Description:
Martin O'Neal of Corsaire has discovered a security issue in Verity Ultraseek, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose path information.

The problem is that requests containing reserved DOS device names (e.g. "com1") are handled incorrectly by the web service, which causes the application to return an error response disclosing the absolute path of the document root.

The issue affects version 5.2.1 and prior.

Solution:
Update to version 5.2.2.
http://www.verity.com/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Martin O'Neal, Corsaire.

Changelog:
2005-02-23: Updated link to advisory.

Original Advisory:
http://www.corsaire.com/advisories/c040113-001.txt


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