Security Advisory SA23158 - ContentServ "src" Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA23158

ContentServ "src" Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA23158

Release Date

2006-12-01

Last Update

2006-12-13

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

ContentServ 4.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2006-6277 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

capt.nem0 has reported a vulnerability in ContentServ, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to the "src" parameter in 4.2/admin/FileServer.php is not properly sanitised before being used to display files. This can be exploited to display arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability is reported in version 4.2. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Reportedly, updates are available for costumers.

Provided and/or discovered by
capt.nem0

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://www.contentserv.com/CSWeb/CSNet-Products-Security_Patches--328.htm

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ContentServ "src" Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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