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Timothy D. Morgan has reported a vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose potentially sensitive information.

Input passed to the "filename" parameter in pkmslogout isn't properly sanitised before being used to retrieve the page template. This can be exploited to retrieve arbitrary files accessible by the web server via directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 5.1.0 and 6.0. Prior versions may also be affected.

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Provided and/or discovered by
Timothy D. Morgan, Virtual Security Research.

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Original Advisory
IBM:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21228486
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24011562
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24011561

Virtual Security Research:
http://www.vsecurity.com/bulletins/advisories/2006/tam-file-retrieval.txt

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