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WinGate Proxy File Retrieval Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA11988
Release Date: 2004-07-02
Popularity: 10,403 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:WinGate 5.x
WinGate 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
iDefense has reported a vulnerability in WinGate, allowing malicious people to retrieve arbitrary files.

The problem is that WinGate allows malicious people to retrieve arbitrary files. This can be exploited through the web interface using directory traversal attacks such as "///file_name".

Example:
http://wingate/wingate-internal/[file]

The following versions are reportedly vulnerable:
* WinGate 5.2.3 build 901
* WinGate 6.0 beta 2 build 942

Prior versions may also be affected.

Change Page:
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