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Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Manager File Upload Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA28787
Release Date: 2008-02-05
Last Update: 2008-02-07
Popularity: 6,800 views

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

Software:Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Manager, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the FileUpload class running on the Symantec LiveState Apache Tomcat server. This can be exploited to upload arbitrary files via a specially crafted HTTP POST request.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 7.0 and 7.0.1.

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