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aMule Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20351
Release Date: 2006-05-29
Last Update: 2006-06-07
Popularity: 6,023 views

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

Software:aMule 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2691
CVE-2006-2692


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in aMule, which can be exploited by malicious people and by malicious users to disclose potentially sensitive information.

Input passed to unspecified parameters in the URL to aMuleWeb is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited by unauthenticated users to gain access to any image files, or by authenticated users to gain access to html and PHP files on the system.

Successful exploitation requires that the full pathname of the file is know.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 2.1.2.

Solution:
Update to version 2.1.2.
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits quinox.

Changelog:
2006-06-07: Added CVE references.

Original Advisory:
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Changelog_2.1.2


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