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Subversion Client Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA26625
Release Date: 2007-08-28
Popularity: 7,266 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Subversion 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Subversion, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the Subversion client not correctly sanitising the name of files during a checkout or update. This can be exploited to create arbitrary files outside the working directory on a client system by setting up a malicious repository or committing a malicious file (requires commit access) containing directory traversal sequences ("..\") in the file name and tricking a user into checking out or updating the repository.

Successful exploitation requires that the client runs on a system that handles "\" as separator for directories (e.g. Windows).

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.4.4 and prior.

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