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Ksemail "language" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory: SA29776  
Release Date: 2008-04-11
Last Update: 2008-04-15

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

Software:Ksemail 6.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1751 (Secunia mirror)

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


Description:
dun has reported a vulnerability in Ksemail, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed via the "language" parameter to index.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources via directory traversal attacks.

Solution:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a web proxy.

Provided and/or discovered by:
dun

Changelog:
2008-04-15: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/5423



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