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eScan Corporate Edition eScan Management Console FTP Server Arbitrary File Download

Secunia Advisory: SA29246  
Release Date: 2008-03-06
Last Update: 2008-03-11

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:eScan Corporate Edition 9.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1221 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Luigi Auriemma has discovered a vulnerability in eScan Corporate Edition, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to the included FTP server in eScan Management Console/eScan Server allowing arbitrary files to be downloaded by e.g. specifying a slash or backslash character to indicate the root directory of the target system's disk.

Example:
ftp://[host]:2021/<dir>/<file>
ftp://[host]:2021/boot.ini

The vulnerability is confirmed in eScan Corporate Edition version 9.0.742.98 including eScan Management Console/eScan Server version 9.0.742.1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Restrict network access to the service.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Luigi Auriemma

Changelog:
2008-03-11: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/escaz-adv.txt



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